Photochemical stitching of a tubularly assembled hexabenzocoronene amphiphile by dimerization of coumarin pendants

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 4220-4221

  Motoyanagi, Jin ^a   Fukushima, Takanori ^b   Ishii, Noriyuki ^c   Aida, Takuzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; COUMARIN; HEXA PERI HEXABENZOCORONENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOTUBE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRESSURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

EID: 33645466882     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja060593z     Document Type: Article

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