Enhanced electron transfer by dendritic architecture: Energy transfer and electron transfer in snowflake-shaped Zn porphyrin dendrimers

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1509-1512

  Kozaki, Masatoshi ^a   Akita, Kogen ^a   Okada, Keiji ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

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EID: 34247515584     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol070245h     Document Type: Article

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