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TTFV-based molecular tweezers and macrocycles as receptors for fullerenes
Karimulla Mulla1, Haseena Shaik, David W Thompson
1Department of Chemistry, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 3X7.
Organic Letters
|August 23, 2013
Abstract:
Hybrids of tetrathiafulvalene vinylogues (TTFVs) and planar arenes were synthesized via the click reaction to form tweezer-like and macrocyclic structures. These compounds were investigated as receptors for fullerenes (C60 and C70) by UV-vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy.

