Supramolecular squares of porphyrazines

Kai Fan Cheng1, Ngee Ai Thai, Lucile C Teague

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 22, 2005
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