Probing Förster Type Energy Pathways in a First Generation Rigid Dendrimer Bearing Two Perylene Imide Chromophores

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 107, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 6920-6931

  Vosch, Tom ^a   Cotlet, Mircea ^a   Hofkens, Johan ^a   Van Der Biest, Koen ^a   Lor, Marc ^a   Weston, Kenneth ^c   Tinnefeld, Philip ^c   Sauer, Markus ^c   Latterini, Loredana ^d   Müllen, Klaus ^b   De Schryver, F C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; FLUORESCENCE; ISOMERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MULTICHROMOPHORIC SYSTEM;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 0142009449     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp034906d     Document Type: Article

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