Schuster David I, Li Ke, Guldi Dirk M, Ramey Jeff
Chemistry Department, New York University, New York City, New York 10003, USA.
Org Lett. 2004 Jun 10;6(12):1919-22. doi: 10.1021/ol049540h.
[reaction: see text] Titration of porphyrin-fullerene rotaxanes with DABCO or 4,4'-bipyridine led to photo- and redoxactive catenanic architectures, which upon photoexcitation undergo a sequence of short-range energy and electron transfer events to give a long-lived charge-separated radical-pair state.