The first genuine observation of fluorescent mononuclear phthalocyanine aggregates (2002)
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Farren, C., FitzGerald, S., Beeby, A., & Bryce, M. (2002). The first genuine observation of fluorescent mononuclear phthalocyanine aggregates. Chemical Communications, 572-573

An initial photophysical study of a tetra-solketal-substituted zinc phthalocyanine is reported; at low temperature this compound exhibits very strong aggregation, and a new red shifted emission peak is observed, lambda(max) approximate to750 nm, attr... Read More about The first genuine observation of fluorescent mononuclear phthalocyanine aggregates.

Electrochemically controlled interactions between TTF-based dendrimers and an electron-rich oligomer (2002)
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Beeby, A., Bryce, M., Christensen, C., Cooke, G., Duclairoir, F., & Rotello, V. (2002). Electrochemically controlled interactions between TTF-based dendrimers and an electron-rich oligomer. Chemical Communications, 2950-2951

Electrochemically controlled interactions have been shown to occur between TTF containing dendrimers 1 and 2 and the electron-rich oligomer 3.

Synthesis of novel phthalocyanine-tetrathiafulvalene hybrids; Intramolecular fluorescence quenching related to molecular geometry (2002)
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Farren, C., Christensen, C., FitzGerald, S., Bryce, M., & Beeby, A. (2002). Synthesis of novel phthalocyanine-tetrathiafulvalene hybrids; Intramolecular fluorescence quenching related to molecular geometry. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 67(26), 9130-9139

A number of silicon phthalocyanine bis-esters have been synthesized and characterized, with axial ligands containing one or more tetrathiafulvalene groups. Variations in the substitution positions around a central aromatic "hinge" within the ligands... Read More about Synthesis of novel phthalocyanine-tetrathiafulvalene hybrids; Intramolecular fluorescence quenching related to molecular geometry.

Structural, luminescence, and NMR studies of the reversible binding of acetate, lactate, citrate, and selected amino acids to chiral diaqua ytterbium, gadolinium, and europium complexes (2002)
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Dickins, R., Aime, S., Batsanov, A., Beeby, A., Botta, M., Bruce, J., …Puschmann, H. (2002). Structural, luminescence, and NMR studies of the reversible binding of acetate, lactate, citrate, and selected amino acids to chiral diaqua ytterbium, gadolinium, and europium complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124(43), 12697-12705. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja020836x

The nature of the ternary complexes formed in aqueous media at ambient pH on reversible binding of acetate, lactate, citrate, and selected amino acids and peptides to chiral diaqua europium, gadolinium, or ytterbium cationic complexes has been examin... Read More about Structural, luminescence, and NMR studies of the reversible binding of acetate, lactate, citrate, and selected amino acids to chiral diaqua ytterbium, gadolinium, and europium complexes.

Fluorescent phthalocyanine dimers - a steady state and flash photolysis study (2002)
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FitzGerald, S., Farren, C., Stanley, C., Beeby, A., & Bryce, M. (2002). Fluorescent phthalocyanine dimers - a steady state and flash photolysis study. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 1(8), 581-587

Steady state and time resolved studies of a tetrakis[(+/-)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxan-4-ylmethanol] (solketal) substituted zinc phthalocyanine (1) and its derivatives (4a-c) are reported. These compounds form novel fluorescent dimers (or higher order ag... Read More about Fluorescent phthalocyanine dimers - a steady state and flash photolysis study.

A re-evaluation of the photophysical properties of 1,4-bis(phenylethynyl)benzene: A model for poly(phenyleneethynylene) (2002)
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Beeby, A., Findlay, K., Low, P., & Marder, T. (2002). A re-evaluation of the photophysical properties of 1,4-bis(phenylethynyl)benzene: A model for poly(phenyleneethynylene). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124(28), 8280-8284. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja025568h

Photophysical measurements, recorded in aerated cyclohexane at 283 K, indicate that 1,4-bis-(phenylethynyl) benzene behaves in a conventional manner, undergoing emission from the lowest vibrational level of the first excited singlet state; there is n... Read More about A re-evaluation of the photophysical properties of 1,4-bis(phenylethynyl)benzene: A model for poly(phenyleneethynylene).

Synthesis, structure and optical characterisation of silicon phthalocyanine bis-esters (2002)
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Farren, C., FitzGerald, S., Bryce, M., Beeby, A., & Batsanov, A. (2002). Synthesis, structure and optical characterisation of silicon phthalocyanine bis-esters. Journal of the Chemical Society-Perkin Transactions 2, 59-66

A range of axially substituted silicon phthalocyanines has been synthesised using various carboxylates as the ligands. 4-tert-Butylbenzoic acid gives rigid, orthogonal axial substituents, whilst a thiophene-containing bis-acetate was conformationally... Read More about Synthesis, structure and optical characterisation of silicon phthalocyanine bis-esters.