Front Cover: Panchromatic Light‐Capturing Bis‐styryl BODIPY‐Perylenediimide Donor‐Acceptor Constructs: Occurrence of Sequential Energy Transfer Followed by Electron Transfer (Chem. Eur. J. 56/2023)

Wide-band-capturing artificial photosynthetic model compounds featuring bisstyrylBODIPY and perylene diimide have been newly synthesized to probe excited-state energy and electron transfer. Excited-state DFT and free-energy calculations supported the occurrence of such photo events. Pump–probe spectroscopy provided the ultimate evidence wherein the measured rate constants for energy transfer were in the range of 1011 s−1, while the electron transfer rate constants were in the range of 10 s−1, thus highlighting their potential use in solar energy harvesting. More information can be found in the Research Article by F. Fernández-Lázaro, Á. Sastre-Santos, F. D'Souza et al. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301686).