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Electron Hopping among Cofacially Stacked Perylenediimides Assembled by Using DNA Hairpins
Author(s) -
Wilson Thea M.,
Zeidan Tarek A.,
Hariharan Mahesh,
Lewis Frederick D.,
Wasielewski Michael R.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200907339
Subject(s) - chromophore , electron , dna , charge (physics) , base pair , crystallography , reduction (mathematics) , computer science , chemistry , physics , biochemistry , photochemistry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , geometry
Charge on through : Perylenediimide chromophores incorporated into DNA hairpins serve as base‐pair surrogates and form a zipperlike intercalated structure (see picture). Electron hopping was observed within the chromophore stacks upon one‐electron reduction.