Spatial Organization of Multi-Porphyrins for Pre-Defined Properties
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 31751
Special Issue Editors
Interests: porphyrins; peptides; oligonucleotides; self-assembling; molecular recognition; chirality
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: porphyrins; peptides; oligonucleotides; self-assembling; molecular recognition; chirality
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In Nature, many systems contain structurally organized porphyrinoids including various enzymes, dedicated to oxygen transport, oxidation processes etc., or the light harvesting antennae and the reaction center involved in the photosynthetic processes. This observation opens the route to new challenges of synthesizing molecular architectures of growing size and structural complexity, for instance as potential models of the light harvesting complexes, but also as photonic and electronic wires. It rapidly appeared crucial to organize in space the chromophores in a way appropriate to induce the desired properties in the designed molecular architectures. For this purpose, both the structure of the molecules and their conformation need to be controlled. When interactions and recognition processes between one or more molecular architectures take place, all the rules of supramolecular chemistry are relevant to achieve the desired goal.
The present Special Issue, “Spatial Organization of Multi-Porphyrins for Pre-Defined Properties”, aims to collect and to disseminate some of the most significant and recent contributions in the very wide and highly interdisciplinary area. The scope is broad and includes covalently linked and self-assembled devices, as well as more sophisticated systems obtained when covalent linkage and supramolecular chemistry can work together. Furthermore, since chirality plays a pivotal role in the structural organization of vast majority of natural assemblies including photosynthesis owing to asymmetry of amino acids, the importance of chirality in some systems will also be covered in this issue.
Dr. Nathalie Solladié
Dr. Regis Rein
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- porphyrins
- self-assembling
- molecular recognition
- chirality
- photo-physical properties
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