Our group is interested in designing novel supramolecular systems that could be used for photoinduced charge transfer applications. This poster focuses on the synthesis of supramolecular precursors utilizing derivatives of fullerenes, coronene, or corannulene, and a transition metal chromophore enabling the system to harness energy from both UV and visible light. The resulting conjugated system and transition metal allow for the efficient transfer of this energy. A bipyridine bridge is being used for two reasons. The first is to connect two fullerene handles together keeping the conjugated system together. The bipyridine also serves as a place for a metal to attach utilizing the nitrogen of each pyridine as attachment points. This system will then be duplicated into polymers that can potentially be applied as paint for solar cell applications.

NKU fullerene research: Synthesis of fullerene, coronene, and corannulene precursors for organometallic supramolecular systems

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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