Supramolecular Peapods Composed of a Metalloporphyrin Nanotube and Fullerenes
- 28 October 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 125 (46), 13934-13935
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja038178j
Abstract
An acyclic dimer of a dendritic zinc porphyrin bearing six carboxylic acid functionalities (1 acid) interacts with fullerenes, such as C60 and C70, to form “supramolecular peapods”, composed of a hydrogen-bonded zinc porphyrin nanotube and fullerenes (3). According to TEM, the peapods are very long (>1 μm) and have a uniform diameter of 15 nm. Without fullerenes, the zinc porphyrin dimer forms only a heavily entangled, irregular assembly. In contrast with 1 acid, an ester version of the acyclic dimer without hydrogen-bonding capability (1 ester) hardly interacts with fullerenes.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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