Synthesis and Electrochemical Reactivity of sigma-Bonded and N-Substituted Cobalt Porphycenes

K. M. Kadish1, P. L. Boulas, M. Kisters

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5641, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität zu Köln, Greinstrasse 4, 50939 Köln, Germany, and Laboratoire d'Ingénierie Moléculaire pour la Séparation et les Applications des Gaz Associé au CNRS (LIMSAG), UMR 5633, Faculté des Sciences Gabriel, Université de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21100 Dijon, France.

Inorganic Chemistry
|October 24, 2001
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