Electron transfer switching in supramolecular porphyrin-fullerene conjugates held by alkylammonium cation-crown ether binding.
Reversible switching between intra- to intermolecular electron transfer paths has been accomplished by adding and extracting potassium ions to the supramolecular porphyrin-fullerene conjugates formed by complexing porphyrin functionalized with a benzo-18-crown-6 entity and fullerene functionalized with an alkylammonium cation entity.
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Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Katahira, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
Araki
Yasuyaki
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Ito
Osamu
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Chitta
Raghu
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Gadde
Suresh
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D'Souza
Francis
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