Self-organization of supramolecular complex composed of rigid dendritic porphyrin and fullerene

Mutsumi Kimura; Yoshikazu Saito; Kazuchika Ohta; Kenji Hanabusa; Hirofusa Shirai; Nagao Kobayashi

doi:10.1021/ja012614p

Self-organization of supramolecular complex composed of rigid dendritic porphyrin and fullerene

J Am Chem Soc. 2002 May 15;124(19):5274-5. doi: 10.1021/ja012614p.

Authors

Mutsumi Kimura¹, Yoshikazu Saito, Kazuchika Ohta, Kenji Hanabusa, Hirofusa Shirai, Nagao Kobayashi

Affiliation

¹ Presto, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Department of Functional Polymer Science, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda 386-8567, Japan. mkimura@giptc.shinshu-u.ac.jp

PMID: 11996561
DOI: 10.1021/ja012614p

Abstract

A second-generation 1,3,5-phenylene-based dendritic porphyrin decorated with flexible alkyl chains exhibited a liquid crystallinity, and the inclusion of fullerene within the nanospace of the dendritic porphyrin strongly affected the mesophase structure in the thermotropic liquid-crystalline phase.