Chiral selective reactivity and redox chemistry of carbon nanotubes are two emerging fields of nanoscience. These areas hold strong promise for producing methods for isolating nanotubes into pure samples of a single electronic type, and for reversible doping of nanotubes for electronics applications. Here, we study the selective reactivity of single-walled carbon nanotubes with organic acceptor molecules. We observe spectral bleaching of the nanotube electronic transitions consistent with an electron-transfer reaction occurring from the nanotubes to the organic acceptors. The reaction kinetics are found to have a strong chiral dependence, with rates being slowest for large-bandgap species and increasing for smaller-bandgap nanotubes. The chiral-dependent kinetics can be tuned to effectively freeze the reacted spectra at a fixed chiral distribution. Such tunable redox chemistry may be important for future applications in reversible non-covalent modification of nanotube electronic properties and in chiral selective separations.
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