Zhang, H.; Zhang, B.; Zhu, M.; Grayson, S. M.; Schmehl, R.; Jayawickramarajah, J. Water-soluble porphyrin nanospheres: enhanced photo-physical properties achieved via cyclodextrin driven double self-inclusion. Chemical Communications 2014, 50, 4853-4855.
Abstract
We describe a method to construct water-soluble porphyrinic nanospheres with enhanced photo-physical properties as a result of precluding (via intra-molecular host–guest interactions) the individual porphyrins units from aromatic–aromatic stacking.
