Issue 11, 2001
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Chemical Communications

Enhanced chemical reversibility of redox processes in cyanine dye rotaxanes

Jonathan E. H. Buston,a   Frank Markenb  and  Harry L. Anderson*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
E-mail: harry.anderson@chem.ox.ac.uk

b Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, South Parks Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK, UK
E-mail: f.marken@lboro.ac.uk

Abstract

When a cyanine dye is encapsulated inside the cavity of α-cyclodextrin, by rotaxane formation, its one-electron oxidation and reduction become reversible, due to a thousand-fold increase in the kinetic chemical stability of the oxidised and reduced forms of the chromophore.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B102068O
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Mar 2001
Accepted
01 May 2001
First published
16 May 2001

Chem. Commun., 2001, 1046-1047

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