Chemical multiequilibria systems can be monitored efficiently with the aid of spectroscopic techniques. Both hard- and soft-modeling are effective and powerful tools to extract chemical information from spectroscopic data. Recently, hybrid approaches that combine the flexibility of soft-modeling with the precise solutions provided by hard-modeling have been proposed. Here, we tested the perform...

The exciton diffusion length in a nematically organized meso-tetra(4-n-butylphenyl)porphyrin (TnBuPP) layer was found to exceed 40 nm at a temperature of 90 K and to be equal to 22 +/- 3 nm at 300 K. The exciton diffusion coefficient decreases from > or = 3.1 x 10(-6) m(2)/s at 90 K to (2.5 +/- 0.5) x 10(-7) m(2)/s at 300 K. This thermal deactivation is attributed to exciton motion via a band m...

A rapid and simple equilibrium-binding assay mediated by ligand-induced fluorescence quenching of fluorophore-labelled G-quadruplex (G4) structures enabled quantitative interrogation of mutually exclusive ligand binding interactions at opposed G-tetrads. This technique revealed that the ligands TmPyP4, PhenDC3, and PDS have differential chemotype-specific binding preferences for individual G-te...

In the title manganese(III) complex, [MnCl(2)(C(10)H(24)N(4))]BF(4) or trans-[MnCl(2)(cyclam)]BF(4) (cyclam is the tetra-dentate amine ligand 1,4,8,11-tetra-azacyclo-tetra-deca-ne), the Mn(III) ions occupy the center of a distorted octa-hedron coordinated by all four ligand nitro-gen donors in the macrobicyclic cavity and two chloride ions occupy the axial positions. Intra-molecular hydrogen bo...

The title compound, (C(10)H(28)N(4))[MnCl(4)(H(2)O)(2)]Cl(2)·2H(2)O, consists of isolated octa-hedral [MnCl(4)(H(2)O)(2)](2-) anions, tetra-protonated 1,4,8,11-tetra-azoniacyclo-tetradecane cations, chloride anions and water mol-ecules connected by a network of hydrogen bonds. The Mn(II) atom is situated on an inversion centre, and the 1,4,8,11-tetra-azoniacyclo-tetradecane cation is located on...

The synthesis and single-crystal X-ray structure determination of the title compound (dinitrato) (1,4,8,11 -tetra-azaandecane) lead(II) is described. Crystals are monoclinic, P2 /ca= 10.271 (2)?,b= 13.524(4) ?,c= 11.298(6) ?,?=94.68(3),2=4,R,Rw, 0.036 and 0.041, respectively. The lead atom is eight-coordinate [Pb-N, 2.44 (2) - 2.55 (1)], [Pb-0,2.87 (1) - 3.06 (2)].