Journal
PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 73-87Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b210569a
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After over 15 years of extensive research work in many laboratories worldwide, supramolecular photochemistry is a well-established and highly recognized branch of science. A brief retrospective view on the birth and infancy of this research area is given and some of the latest developments are discussed. In supramolecular photochemistry Ru(II) and Cu(I) diimmine complexes and C-60 fullerenes are some of the most widely investigated chromophores and over the years big efforts have been made to implement and tune their photophysical and excited state properties, which are briefly reviewed. Thanks to a huge amount of synthetic and analytical research work, it has been possible to insert or combine these organic and inorganic subunits in a variety of fascinating supramolecular architectures. Some results concerned with photoinduced processes occurring in dyads, triads, catenanes, rotaxanes, dendrimers, and protonated self-assembled architectures are briefly illustrated. The overall picture stemming form the current state of the art in supramolecular photochemistry is that of a discipline gaining an increasing degree of multidisciplinarity. Interconnections with biology, physics and information technology are being established at a very fast pace, suggesting a bright future for this still young research field.
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