Charge transfer reactions along a supramolecular redox gradient

Aurelio Mateo-Alonso; Christian Ehli; Dirk M Guldi; Maurizio Prato

doi:10.1021/ja8063155

Charge transfer reactions along a supramolecular redox gradient

J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Nov 12;130(45):14938-9. doi: 10.1021/ja8063155. Epub 2008 Oct 21.

Authors

Aurelio Mateo-Alonso¹, Christian Ehli, Dirk M Guldi, Maurizio Prato

Affiliation

¹ Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials, Italian Interuniversity Consortium on Materials Science and Technology, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy. amateo@units.it

PMID: 18937479
DOI: 10.1021/ja8063155

Abstract

A rotaxane scaffold is used to align three photo/electroactive units along a supramolecular redox gradient leading to a cascade of through-space charge transfer reactions.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Electrons
Ferrous Compounds / chemistry*
Fullerenes / chemistry*
Metallocenes
Metalloporphyrins / chemistry*
Oxidation-Reduction
Photolysis
Rotaxanes / chemistry
Ruthenium / chemistry*
Spectrophotometry / methods
Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared

Substances

Ferrous Compounds
Fullerenes
Metallocenes
Metalloporphyrins
Rotaxanes
Ruthenium
fullerene C60
ferrocene