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Chem."],"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    Driven by the great potential of solar energy conversion this study comprises the evaluation and comparison of two different design approaches for the improvement of copper based photosensitizers. In particular, the distinction between the effects of a covalently linked and a directly fused naphthalimide unit was assessed. For this purpose, the two heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes\n                    <jats:bold>CuNIphen<\/jats:bold>\n                    (\n                    <jats:bold>NIphen<\/jats:bold>\n                    = 5-(1,8-naphthalimide)-1,10-phenanthroline) and\n                    <jats:bold>Cubiipo<\/jats:bold>\n                    (\n                    <jats:bold>biipo<\/jats:bold>\n                    = 16H-benzo-[4\u2032,5\u2032]-isoquinolino-[2\u2032,1\u2032,:1,2]-imidazo-[4,5-f]-[1,10]-phenanthroline-16-one) were prepared and compared with the novel unsubstituted reference compound\n                    <jats:bold>Cuphen<\/jats:bold>\n                    (\n                    <jats:bold>phen<\/jats:bold>\n                    = 1,10-phenanthroline). Beside a comprehensive structural characterization, including two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and X-ray analysis, a combination of electrochemistry, steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopy was used to determine the electrochemical and photophysical properties in detail. The nature of the excited states was further examined by (time-dependent) density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations. It was found that\n                    <jats:bold>CuNIphen<\/jats:bold>\n                    exhibits a greatly enhanced absorption in the visible and a strong dependency of the excited state lifetimes on the chosen solvent. For example, the lifetime of\n                    <jats:bold>CuNIphen<\/jats:bold>\n                    extends from 0.37\u00a0\u00b5s in CH\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    Cl\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    to 19.24\u00a0\u00b5s in MeCN, while it decreases from 128.39 to 2.6\u00a0\u00b5s in\n                    <jats:bold>Cubiipo<\/jats:bold>\n                    . 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