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The Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of a Series of Ruthenium N-triphosPh Complexes
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A remarkably stable hydrogen-bonded porphyrin.iron(terpyridine) ion pair
T B Norsten1, K Chichak, N R Branda
1Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G2.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 21, 2002
Abstract:
Even in highly competitive solvents such as DMSO, strong bimolecular association and subsequent fluorescence quenching result from the combination of hydrogen bonding and ion pairing between a porphyrinic bis(carboxylate) dianion and an iron(terpyridine) bis(urea).
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