Lembo Angelo, Tagliatesta Pietro, Cicero Daniel, Leoni Alessandro, Salvatori Alisa
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, University of Rome-Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133, Rome, Italy.
Org Biomol Chem. 2009 Mar 21;7(6):1093-6. doi: 10.1039/b820501a. Epub 2009 Feb 5.
A synthetic route for obtaining a porphyrin-fullerene dyad with a constrained geometry forcing the [60]fullerene sphere to lie on the porphyrin plane is reported, revealing a strong interaction in the ground state between the two chromophores.