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Large, Tunable, and Reversible pH Changes by Merocyanine Photoacids
Molecular photoswitches capable of generating precise pH changes will allow pH-dependent processes to be controlled remotely and …
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From Macrocycles to Quantum Rings: Does Aromaticity Have a Size Limit?
The ring currents of aromatic and antiaromatic molecules are remarkable emergent phenomena. A ring current is a quantum-mechanical …
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Large Faraday Rotation in Optical-Quality Phthalocyanine and Porphyrin Thin Films
The magneto-optical phenomenon known as Faraday rotation involves the rotation of plane-polarized light as it passes through an optical …
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Global aromaticity at the nanoscale
Does aromaticity have a size limit? Evidence is presented for global aromaticity in porphyrin nanorings with circuits of up to 162 …
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Mechanisms of IR amplification in radical cation polarons
Break down of the Born–Oppenheimer approximation is caused by mixing of electronic and vibrational transitions in the radical cations …
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Time-Resolved Structural Dynamics of Extended π-Electron Porphyrin Nanoring
The design of molecular structures inspired by naturally occuring light harvesting systems has been intensely pursued over the last …
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Probing the orientation of porphyrin oligomers in a liquid crystal solvent – a triplet state electron paramagnetic resonance study
Linear porphyrin oligomers have found various applications as synthetic molecular wires in the context of light harvesting, solar …
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Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity in the Excited States of Porphyrin Nanorings
Aromaticity can be a useful concept for predicting the behavior of excited states. Here we show that π-conjugated porphyrin nanorings …
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Watching Bonds Move in a Large Antiaromatic Ring
In antiaromatic molecules, single and double bonds interconvert via a process called bond-shift valence tautomerization, which is often …
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Janus Graphene: Scalable Self-Assembly and Solution-Phase Orthogonal Functionalization
Orthogonal functionalization of 2D materials by selective assembly at interfaces provides opportunities to create new materials with …
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Global Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity in Porphyrin Nanoring Anions
Doping, through oxidation or reduction, is often used to modify the properties of π-conjugated oligomers. In most cases, the resulting …
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Band Structures of Periodic Porphyrin Nanostructures
Recent progress in the synthesis of π-conjugated porphyrin arrays of different shapes and dimensionalities motivates us to examine the …
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A Semiconducting Conjugated Radical Polymer: Ambipolar Redox Activity and Faraday Effect
Investigations of magnetism in electronically coupled polyradicals have largely focused on applications in photonic and magnetic …
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Insights into Magneto-Optics of Helical Conjugated Polymers
Materials with magneto-optic (MO) properties have enabled critical fiber-optic applications and highly sensitive magnetic field …
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Template-Directed Synthesis of a Conjugated Zinc Porphyrin Nanoball
We report the template-directed synthesis of a π-conjugated 14-porphyrin nanoball. This structure consists of two intersecting …
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Detection of a weak ring current in a nonaromatic porphyrin nanoring using magnetic circular dichroism
We compare the absorption and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of a series of porphyrin oligomers – dimer, tetramer, and …
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Electronic Delocalization in the Radical Cations of Porphyrin Oligomer Molecular Wires
The radical cations of a family of π-conjugated porphyrin arrays have been investigated: linear chains of N = 1–6 porphyrins, a …
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Quantifying the exchange coupling in linear copper porphyrin oligomers
Linear π-conjugated porphyrin oligomers are of significant current interest due to their potential applications as molecular wires. In …
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Constructive quantum interference in a bis-copper six-porphyrin nanoring
Quantum interference in charge transport is attracting interest with applications in nanoelectronics and quantum computing. Here, the …
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Aromatic and antiaromatic ring currents in a molecular nanoring
Aromatic and antiaromatic molecules—which have delocalized circuits of [4n + 2] or [4n] electrons, respectively—exhibit ring currents …
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Photogenerated triplet states in supramolecular porphyrin ladder assemblies: an EPR study
Introducing bridging ligands such as DABCO to solutions of linear zinc porphyrin oligomers has previously been shown to lead to the …
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Harnessing NMR relaxation interference effects to characterise supramolecular assemblies
Solution-state NMR spectroscopy remains the primary method for characterising synthetic supramolecular assemblies. Yet, in their NMR …
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Experimental and computational evaluation of the barrier to torsional rotation in a butadiyne-linked porphyrin dimer
The barrier to torsional rotation in a butadiyne-linked porphyrin dimer has been determined in solution using variable temperature …
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Synthesis of Five-Porphyrin Nanorings by Using Ferrocene and Corannulene Templates
The smallest and most strained member of a family of π-conjugated cyclic porphyrin oligomers was synthesized by using pentapyridyl …
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Excitation wavelength-dependent EPR study on the influence of the conformation of multiporphyrin arrays on triplet state delocalization
Excitation wavelength-dependent EPR and ENDOR reveal localization of the triplet state in twisted conformations of porphyrin oligomers.
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Transient EPR Reveals Triplet State Delocalization in a Series of Cyclic and Linear π-Conjugated Porphyrin Oligomers
The photoexcited triplet states of a series of linear and cyclic butadiyne-linked porphyrin oligomers were investigated by transient …
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Photophysics of Threaded sp-Carbon Chains: The Polyyne is a Sink for Singlet and Triplet Excitation
We have used single-crystal X-ray diffraction and time-resolved UV–NIR–IR absorption spectroscopy to gain insights into the structures …
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