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Published on: September 18, 2016
Unsymmetrical p-carborane backbone as a linker for donor-acceptor dyads
Delphine Hablot1, Alexandra Sutter, Pascal Retailleau
1Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Spectroscopies Avancées (LCOSA), Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, CNRS, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France.
Abstract:
Fluorescent nanorods: Donor-acceptor dyads based on novel unsymmetrically disubstituted closo-1,12-dicarbadecaboranes have been prepared in a completely controlled manner by using a three-step procedure. Dyads with different donor-acceptor spacing were thereby obtained. Efficient energy transfer from the donor to the acceptor was determined in fluid solution at room temperature.
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