Self-Organization of Supramolecular Complex Composed of Rigid Dendritic
Porphyrin and Fullerene

Kimura, Mutsumi; Saito, Yoshikazu; Ohta, Kazuchika; Hanabusa, Kenji; Shirai, Hirofusa; Kobayashi, Nagao

doi:10.1021/ja012614p.s001

Self-Organization of Supramolecular Complex Composed of Rigid Dendritic Porphyrin and Fullerene

journal contribution

posted on 2002-04-17, 00:00 authored by Mutsumi Kimura, Yoshikazu Saito, Kazuchika Ohta, Kenji Hanabusa, Hirofusa Shirai, Nagao Kobayashi

A second-generation 1,3,5-phenylene-based dendritic porphyrin decorated with flexible alkyl chains exhibited a liquid crystallinity, and the inclusion of fullerene within the nanospace of the dendritic porphyrin strongly affected the mesophase structure in the thermotropic liquid-crystalline phase.