Publications 2006

Mohamed E. El-Khouly,  Yasuyaki Araki,  Osamu Ito,  Suresh Gadde,  Melvin E. Zandler  and Francis D’Souza, ”Photophysical studies of supramolecular triads involving zinc naphthalocyanines and pyridylfullerenes  with  second electron donor.” J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2006, 10, 1156.

Francis D’Souza,  Raghu Chitta,  Suresh Gadde, D.-M. Shafiqul Islam, Amy L. McCarty, Melvin E. Zandler,  Yasuyaki Araki,  and  Osamu Ito “Design and Studies on Supramolecular Ferrocene-Porphyrin-Fullerene Constructs for Generating Long-Lived Charge Separated States”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 25240.

Shivaraj Yellappa,  Jaldappagari Seetharamappa,  Lisa M. Rogers,  Raghu Chitta,  Ram P. Singhal,  and Francis D’Souza, ”Binding, Electrochemical Activation and Cleavage of DNA by Cobalt(II)tetrakis-N-Methylpyridyl Porphyrin and its b-Pyrrole Brominated Derivative.” Bioconjugate Chem.  2006, 17, 1418.

Hill, Jonathan P.; Schumacher, Amy Lea; D'Souza, Francis; Labuta, Jan; Redshaw, Carl; Elsegood, Mark R. J.; Aoyagi, Masaru; Nakanishi, Takashi; Ariga, Katsuhiko.  ‘Chromogenic Indicator for Anion Reporting Based on an N-Substituted Oxoporphyrinogen.’  Inorganic Chemistry, 2006, 45, 5057.

Atula S. D. Sandanayaka, Yasuyaki Araki,  Osamu Ito,  Raghu Chitta, Suresh Gadde, Francis D’Souza, ‘Electron Transfer Switching in Supramolecular Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates Held by Alkyl Ammonium Cation-Crown Ether Binding.” Chem. Commun. 2006,4327.

Francis D’Souza,  Raghu Chitta,  Suresh Gadde,  Melvin E. Zandler,  Amy L. McCarty, Atula S. D. Sandanayaka  Yasuyaki Araki,  and  Osamu Ito “Potassium Ion Induced Switching of Intra- to Intermolecular Electron Transfer in Crown Ether Appended Free-Base Porphyrin-Fullerene Supramolecules” J. Phys. Chem. A 2006, 110, 4338-4347.

Seetharamappa, Jaldappagari; Yellappa, Shivaraj; D'Souza, Francis. ‘Carbon nanotubes. Next generation of electronic materials.’  Electrochemical Society Interface, 2006,  15,  23-25.

Francis D’Souza,  Raghu Chitta,  Suresh Gadde,  Melvin E. Zandler,  Amy L. McCarty, Karr, P. a.; Atula S. D. Sandanayaka  Yasuyaki Araki,  and  Osamu Ito “Design, Syntheses, and Studies of Supramolecular Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates Using Bis 18-Crown-6 Appended Porphyrins and Pyridine and/or Alkyl Ammonium Functionalized Fullerenes,J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 5905-5913.

Hill, J. P.; Wakayama, Y.; Schmitt, W.; Tsuruoka, T.; Nakanish, T.; Zandler, M. E.; McCarty, A. L.; D’Souza, F.; Milgrom, L.R.; Ariga, K. “Regulating the Stability of 2D Crystal Structures at Metallic Surfaces Using an Oxidation State Dependent Molecular Confirmation.” Chem. Commun., 2006, 2320-2322.

D’Souza, F.; Smith, P. M.; Rogers, L.; Zandler, M. E.; Shafiquil, I D. M.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O,. “Formation, Spectral, Electrochemical and Photochemical Behavior of Zinc N-Confused Porphyrin Self-Assembled to Imidazole Functionalized Fullerene Dyads.” Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 5057-5065.

Zandler, M. E.; D’Souza, F. “The Remarkable Ability of B3LYP/3-21G(*) Calculations to Describe Geometric, Spectral and Electrochemical Properties of Supramolecular Donor-Acceptor Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates.” Comptes Rendus Chimie, 2006, 9, 960-981.

Atula S. D. Sandanayaka, Yasuyaki Araki, and  Osamu Ito,  Gollapalli R. Deviprasad,  Phillip M. Smith,  Lisa M. Rogers,  Melvin E. Zandler,  Francis D’Souza “Photoinduced electron transfer in fullerene triads linked to pyrene and fluorene.” Chem. Phys. 2006,325, 452-460.

D’Souza, F.; El-Khouly, M. E.; Gadde, S.; Zandler, M. E.; McCarty, A. L.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O. “Stable Supramolecular Triads via ‘Two-Point’ Binding Involving Coordination and Hydrogen Bonding:  Role of the Second Electron Donor in Charge Stabilization.”Tetrahedron, 2006, 62, 1967-1978.

Hill, J.P.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; A. L. McCarty, Karr, P. A.; Zandler, M. E.; Charvet, R.; Ariga, K.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O.; D’Souza, F. “A Novel Bis Porphyrin-Oxoporphyrinogen Donor-Acceptor Triad: Synthesis, Electrochemical, Computational and Photochemical Studies.” Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 595-603.

D’Souza F. Kadish, K. M. ‘Electron Transfer Processes of b-Pyrrole Brominated Porphyrins: Structural versus Electronic Effects’ in N4 MACROCYCLIC METAL COMPLEXES  Eds. J.H. Zagal, F. Bedioui, and J.P. Dodelet,  Springer, 2006, Chapter 9, pp-439-455.

Karr, P. A.; Zandler, M. E.; Beck, M.; McCarty, A. L.; Smith, P. M.; D’Souza, F.  “Predicting the Site of Electron Transfer Using DFT Frontier Orbitals:  Studies on Porphyrin Attached Either to a Quinone or Hydroquinone, and Quinhydrone Self-Assembled Supramolecular Complexes.” THEOCHEM,  2006, 765, 91-103.

Winkler, K.; Plonska, M.  E.; Gadde, S.; D’Souza, F.; Balch, A. L. “Activation of Voltammetric Response of Two-Component Films of Palladium and Functionalized Fullerenes Bearing Redox Active Ferrocene or Zinc Porphyrin Probe.” Electroanalysis, 2006, 18, 841-848.

Deviprasad, G. R.; Smith, P. M.; Zandler, M. E.; Rogers, L. M.; D’Souza, F. “Fluorophore(s) Appended Fullerene Dyads and Triads for Probing Photoinduced Energy Transfer: Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Fluorescence Studies.”Photosynthesis Research, 2006, 87, 105-114.