Publications by authors named "Victor Garcia-Calvo"
We report the use of a tetraborylated perylenediimide as starting material for the preparation of a tetracorannulene-perylenediimide that is able to bind up to two fullerene-C molecules by host-guest molecular recognition with preference over C. Titration with fullerene-C is followed by a dramatic shift of the aromatic signals in H NMR and an initial increase in the fluorescence of the system. By this simple mechanism, fluorogenic sensing of fullerene-C is easily accomplished by an unprecedented fluorescent turn-on mechanism.
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- Developed new functionalized polymers that easily bond with gold nanoparticles.
- Gold nanoparticles can be uniformly distributed on the polymer surface by adding a gold(III) solution to water and the polymers.
- This polymer-gold nanoparticle combo serves as an efficient and reusable catalyst for Suzuki reactions in mixed organic-aqueous solvents.