Publications 2007

D’Souza, F.; Chitta, R.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Subbaiyan, N. K.; D’Souza, L.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O. ‘Supramolecular Carbon Nanotube-Fullerene Donor-Acceptor Hybrids for Photoinduced Electron Transfer’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 15865-15871.

Xie, Y.; Hill, J.P.; Schumacher, A. L.; Karr, P. A.; D’Souza, F.; Anson, C. E.; Powell, A. K.; Ariga, K. ‘Tautomerism in Novel Oxocorrologens’ Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 9824-9833.

Schumacher, A. L.; Hill, J. P.; Ariga, K.; D’Souza, F.  ‘Highly Effective Electrochemical Anion Sensing Based on Oxoporphyrinogen.” Electrochem. Commun. 2007, 9, 2751-2754.

Obraztsow, I.; Noworyta, K.; Kutner, W.; Gadde, S.; D’Souza, F. ‘Nanostructuring of Watson-Crick Type Base-Paired (C60-uracil)-(2-Aminopurine) Conjugates in Langmuir Films’ Physica Status Solid, B 2007, 244, 3861-3867..

Taku Hasobe, Kenji Saito, Prashant V. Kamat, Vincent Troiani, Hongjin Qiu, Nathalie Solladi�, Tae Kyu Ahn, Kil Suk Kim, Seung Keun Kim, Dongho Kim, Francis D'Souza, and Shunichi Fukuzumi, ”Photovoltaic Cells of Supramolecular Composites of Porphyrins and Fullerenes Organized by Polypeptide Structures,” J. Mater. Chem. 2007, 17, 4160-4170.

D’Souza, F.; Chitta, R.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Subbaiyan, N. K.; D’Souza, L.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O. ‘Self-assembled Zinc Porphyrin-Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Hybrids via Ammonium/Crown Ether Interaction: Construction and Electron Transfer Studies.”Chemistry European J. 2007, 13, 8277-8284..

Gadde, S.; Islam, D.-M. S. ;Wijesinghe, C. A.; Subbaiyan, N. K.; Zandler, M. E.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O.; D’Souza, F.  ‘Light Induced Electron Transfer of a Supramolecular Bis(Zinc Porphyrin)-Fullerene Triad Constructed via a Diacetylamidopyridine/Uracil Hydrogen-Bonding Motif.” J. Phys. Chem. C 2007,111, 12400-12503.

Francis D’Souza, Suresh Gadde, Amy Lea Schumacher,  Melvin E. Zandler, Atula S. D. Sandanayaka,  Yasuyaki Araki,  and  Osamu Ito ‘Supramolecular Triads Composed of Free-Base Porphyrin Covalently Linked to Fullerene with Pyridine – Axially Coordinated to Ferric Porphyrins: Formation, Sequential Electron Transfer and Charge Stabilization’ J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007, 111, 11123-11130.

D’Souza, F.; Gadde, S.; Islam, D.M.S.; Wijesinghe, C. A.; Schumacher, A. L.; Zandler, M. E.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O. ‘Multi-Triphenylamine-Substituted Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates as Charge Stabilizing ‘Antenna-Reaction Center’ Mimics.” J. Phys. Chem. A. 2007, 111, 8552-8560.

Hill, J. P.; Ariga, K.; Schumacher, A. L.; Karr, P. A.; D’Souza, ‚Pyren-1-ylmethyl N-Substituted oxoporphyrinogens’ J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2007, 11, 390-396.

Amy Lea Schumacher, Atula S. D. Sandanayaka,  Jonathan P. Hill,  Katsuhiko Ariga,  Paul A. Karr,  Yasuyuki Araki,  Osamu Ito, and Francis D’Souza ‘Supramolecular Triad and Pentad Composed of Zinc Porphyrin(s), Oxoporphyrinogen, and Fullerene(s): Design and Electron Transfer Studies’ Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 4628-4635.

Raghu Chitta,  Atula S. D. Sandanayaka,  Amy L. Schumacher,  Lawrence D’Souza, Yasuyaki Araki,  Osamu Ito and Francis D’Souza, “Donor-Acceptor Nanohybrids of Zinc Naphthalocyanine or Zinc Porphyrin Non-Covalently linked to Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Photoinduced Electron Transfer, J. Phys. Chem.C  2007, 111, 6947-6955.

James D. Blakemore,  Raghu Chitta,  and  Francis D’Souza, “Synthesis and Study of Crown Ether-Appended Boron Dipyrrin Chemosensors for Cation Detection”Teterahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 1977-1982.

Francis D’Souza, Raghu Chitta, Suresh Gadde, Lisa M. Rogers, Paul A Karr, Melvin E. Zandler, Atula S. D. Sandanayaka,  Yasuyaki Araki,  and  Osamu Ito “Photosynthetic Reaction Center Mimicry of ‘Special Pair’ Dimer Linked to Electron Acceptors by Supramolecular Approach: Self-assembled Cofacial Zinc Porphyrin Dimer Complexed with Fullerene(s)” Chemistry European J.  2007, 13, 916-922.

Francis D’Souza,  Suresh Gadde, D.-M. Shafiqul Islam, Amy L. McCarty, Melvin E. Zandler,  Yasuyaki Araki,  and  Osamu Ito “Photoinduced electron transfer in a Watson-Crick base-paired, 2-aminopurine:uracil-C60 hydrogen bonding systems.  Chem. Commun. 2007, 480-482.

Renata Marczak, Vito Sgobba, Wlodzimierz Kutner, Suresh Gadde,  Francis D’Souza, Dirk M. Guldi “Langmuir-Blodgett films of cationic zinc porphyrin-imidazole functionalized fullerene dyad: Formation and photoelectrochemical studies” Langmuir, 2007, 23, 1917-1923.

Krzysztof Noworyta,  Renata Marczak,  Rafal Tylenda, Janusz W. Sobczak,  Raghu Chitta,  Wlodzimierz Kutner,  and  Francis D’Souza, “Two-point” assembling of Zn(II) and Co(II) metalloporphyrins derivatized with a crown ether substituent in the Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films.” Langmuir, 2007, 23, 2555-2568.

Krzysztof Winkler, Emilia Grodzka, Francis D’Souza, and Alan L. Balch, ”Two-component Films of Fullerene and Palladium as Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 2007, 154, K1-K10.

Marczak, R.; Noworyta, K.; Nowakowski, R.; Kutner, W.; Desbat, B.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O.; Gadde, S.; Zandler, M. E.; D’Souza, F. “Self-assembled Porphyrin-Fullerene at the Air-Water Interface: Formation as well as Spectral, Electrochemical, and Vectorial Electron Transfer Studies of the Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett Films.” J. Nanoscience and Nanostructures, 2007, 7, 1455-1471.