title: Tessellation of porphyrazines with porphyrins by design.
abstract: The efficient self-assembly and functional characterization of arrays containing multiple types of chromophores will provide a basis for the design and applications of functional photonic materials that are unobtainable using only one type of molecule. The design, synthesis, and characterization of supramolecular systems bearing two different types of porphyrinic chromophores, porphyrins and porphyrazines, are reported. Because the porphyrins and porphyrazines bear different exocyclic ligands for self-assembly by metal ion coordination, these systems require new supramolecular synthetic strategies wherein reactants are added in a specific order. These arrays display unique photophysical properties derived from the component chromophores, the metal geometry, and the supramolecular nanoarchitecture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.
authors.forename: Kai Fan
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Ngee Ai
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Thai
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grohmann
authors.forename: Lucile C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Teague
authors.forename: Charles Michael
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Drain
mesh_terms: D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011166:Porphyrins