Cucurbituril complexes of redox active guests

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-38

  Gadde, Suresh ^a   Kaifer, Angel E ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobaltocenium; Cucurbituril hosts; Electrochemistry; Ferrocene; Host guest complexes; Viologen

Indexed keywords

EID: 78951489456     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138527211793797800     Document Type: Article

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