Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Twisted-Planar-Twisted expanded porphyrinoid dimer as a rudimentary reaction-based methanol indicator

  • Qizhao Li,
  • Chengjie Li,
  • Glib Baryshnikov,
  • Yubin Ding,
  • Chengxi Zhao,
  • Tingting Gu,
  • Feng Sha,
  • Xu Liang,
  • Weihua Zhu,
  • Xinyan Wu,
  • Hans Ågren,
  • Jonathan L. Sessler,
  • Yongshu Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19118-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Directly linked porphyrin dimers show intriguing electronic features but emphasis has been placed on planar monomeric units. Here, the authors report a Twisted-Planar-Twisted framework which can undergo a cis-trans transformation accompanied by a colour change in presence of methanol, making this framework applicable as a methanol sensor.