Publications 2008

D’Souza, F.; Maligaspe, E.; Zandler, M. E.; Subbaiyan, N. K.; Ohkubo, K.; Fukuzumi, S. ‘Metal Quinolinolate-Fullerere(s) Donor-Acceptor Complexes: Evidence for Organic LED Molecules Acting as Electron Donors in Photoinduced Electron Transfer’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 16959-16967.

D’Souza, F.; Chitta, R.; Ohkubo, K.; Tasior, M.; Subbaiyan, N. K.; Zandler, M. E.; Rogachi, M.; Gryko, D. T.; Fukuzumi, S. ‘Corrole-Fullerene Dyads: Formation of Long-Lived Charge-Separated States in Non-Polar Solvents’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 14263-14272.

Hill, J. P.; Palza, H.; Alam, S.; Ariga, K.; Schumacher, A. L.; D’Souza, F.; Anson, C. E.; Powell, A. K. “Hybrid Materials Derived from Dinuclear Complexes of Manganese with Cyclen.” Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 8306-8314.

Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Subbaiyan, N. K.; Chitta, R.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O.; D’Souza, F. ‘Co-facial magnesium porphyrin dimer complexed with fullerene: Photosynthetic reaction center model of ‘special pair’ self-assembled to electron acceptor.’ J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2008, 12, 857-865.

D’Souza, F.; Schumacher, A. L.; Hill, J. P.; Karr, P. A.; Xie, Y.; Ariga, K.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Araki, Y.; Ito, O. ‘Oxoporphyrinogens: From Redox and Spectroscopic Probe for Anion Sensing to a Platform for Construction of Supramolecular Donor-Acceptor Conjugates. ECS Transactions, 2008, 13, 127-136.

Pieta, P.; Grodzka, E.; Winkler, K.; Venukadasula, G. M.; D’Souza, F.; Kutner. W. ‘Preparation and selected properties of a composite of the C60-Pd conducting polymer and single-wall carbon nanotubes’ Physica Status Solid, B 2008, 245, 2292-2295.

Xie, Y.; Hill, J. P.; Schumacher, A. L.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Arkai, Y.; Karr, P. A.; Labuta, J.; D’Souza, F.; Ito, O.; Anson, C.; Powell, A.; Ariga, K.'Twisted, two faced porphyrines as hosts for Bispyridyl Fullerences : Construction and Photophysical properties' J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 10559-10572.

R. Chitta, F. D’Souza, ‘Self-assembled tetrapyrrole-Fullerene and Tetrapyrrole-Carbon Nanotube Donor-acceptor Hybrids for Light Induced Electron Transfer Applications: A review.” J. Mater. Chem. 2008, 18, 1440-1471.

D’Souza, F.; Rogers, L. M.; Islam, DMS. ; Araki, Y. ; Ito, O. ‘Binding of Cationic Porphyrins to Poly(AT): Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Between DNA Bound Porphyrins.’Chem. Letts. 2008, 37, 460-461.

Araki, Y.; Chitta, R.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Langenwalter, K.; Gadde, S.; Zandler, M. E.; Ito, O.; D’Souza, F. “Self-Assembled Supramolecular Ferrocene-Fullerene Dyads and Triad: Formation and Photoinduced Electron Transfer. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 2222-2229.

Zandler, M. E. and D’Souza, F. ‘Geometry and Electronic Structure of Tetrapyrrole-Fullerene Conjugates Probed by DFT Methods.’ to be published in DFT Calculations on Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes Eds. Basiuk V. A. and Irle, S., Research Signpost, Kerala, India, 2008, pp. 81-126.

D’Souza, F.; Maligaspe, E.; Karr, P. A.; Schumacher, A. L.; Ojaimi, M. E.; Gros, C. P.; Barbe, J.-M. Ohkubo, K.; Fukuzumi, S. ‘Face-to-Face Held Pacman Type Porphyrin-Fullerene Dyads: Design, Synthesis, Charge Transfer Interactions and Photophysical Studies’Chemistry European J. 2008, 14, 674-681.

D’Souza, F.; Ito, O. “Electron Transfer in Self-assembled Supramolecular Fullerene Based Donor-Acceptor Conjugates.” published in Handbook of Organic Electronics and Photonics Edited by H. R. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers, Volume 1, chapter 13, pp 485-521, 2008, American Scientific Publishers, California.