Open AccessA porphyrin-centred fullerene tetramer containing an N@C 60 substituent
Author(s) -
Harry Macpherson,
Stuart Cornes,
Shen Zhou,
Kyriakos Porfyrakis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
royal society open science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
ISSN - 2054-5703
DOI - 10.1098/rsos.180338
Subject(s) - tetramer , fullerene , qubit , cycloaddition , substituent , porphyrin , covalent bond , chemistry , molecule , quantum , nanotechnology , stereochemistry , photochemistry , materials science , physics , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , catalysis , enzyme
An N@C 60 -containing C 60 tetramer was synthesized by quadruple 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (Prato) reaction. This molecule demonstrates the N@C 60 qubit's ability to form covalently linked arrays. Furthermore, it provides a promising scaffold with which to measure multiple qubit–qubit interactions; which must be well characterized for a functioning quantum information processing architecture.