Unimolecular electrical rectification in hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 119, Issue 43, 1997, Pages 10455-10466

  Metzger, Robert M ^a   Chen, Bo ^a   Höpfner, Ulf ^a,b   Lakshmikantham, M V ^a   Vuillaume, Dominique ^a,d   Kawai, Tsuyoshi ^a,e   Wu, Xiangli ^a   Tachibana, Hiroaki ^a,f   Hughes, Terry V ^a   Sakurai, Hiromi ^a   Baldwin, Jeffrey W ^a   Hosch, Christina ^a   Cava, Michael P ^a   Brehmer, Ludwig ^b   Ashwell, Geoffrey J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATL INST OF MAT AND CHEM RES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOLYTE; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DIPOLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; POTENTIOMETRY;

EID: 16944365315     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja971811e     Document Type: Article

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