Designing multifunctional expanded pyridiniums: Properties of branched and fused head-to-tail bipyridiniums

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 16700-16713

  Fortage, Jérôme ^a,b   Peltier, Cyril ^c   Nastasi, Francesco ^d   Puntoriero, Fausto ^d   Tuyéras, Fabien ^a   Griveau, Sophie ^e   Bedioui, Fethi ^e   Adamo, Carlo ^c   Ciofini, Ilaria ^c   Campagna, Sebastiano ^d   Lainé, Philippe P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVITIES; BIPHENYL GROUP; BIPYRIDINIUM; DICATIONIC SPECIES; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; INTRA-MOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSFER; LUMINOPHORES; PYRIDINIUM; PYRIDYL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLET EXCITED STATE; STOKES SHIFT;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; ION EXCHANGE; QUANTUM YIELD;

REDUCTION;

BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; EXPANDED PYRIDINIUM; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATOPHORE; DENSITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78649279297     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja108668h     Document Type: Article

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