Fluorescent J-aggregates of core-substituted perylene bisimides: Studies on structure-property relationship, nucleation-elongation mechanism, and sergeants-and-soldiers principle

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6719-6732

  Kaiser, Theo E ^a   Stepanenko, Vladimir ^a   Würthner, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; AGGREGATION PROCESS; ALKOXY SUBSTITUENTS; CD SPECTROSCOPY; CHIRAL AMPLIFICATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COAGGREGATION; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; DOUBLE STRING; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN ATOMS; ISODESMIC; J AGGREGATES; LINEAR DICHROISM; METHYLCYCLOHEXANE; MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENTS; MONOMERIC UNITS; NON-LINEARITY; PERYLENE BISIMIDE; PERYLENE BISIMIDES; POLYMERIC CHAIN; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); SELF-ASSEMBLE; SERGEANTS-AND-SOLDIERS PRINCIPLE; SIDE CHAINS; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS;

ABERRATIONS; AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; AMPLIFICATION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMS; CHROMOPHORES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; DICHROISM; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELONGATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN; LADDER NETWORKS; NUCLEATION; SCANNING;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

PERYLENE; PERYLENE BISIMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FLUORESCENCE; LINEAR DICHROISM; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SOLDIER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 67650553061     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja900684h     Document Type: Article

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