Self-assembly of benzophenone-diphenylalanine conjugate into a nanostructured photocatalyst

Simone Adorinni; Giulio Goti; Lorenzo Rizzo; Federica Grassi; Slavko Kralj; Fatima Matroodi; Mirco Natali; Rita De Zorzi; Silvia Marchesan; Luca Dell’Amico

doi:10.1039/D3CC01673K

Self-assembly of benzophenone-diphenylalanine conjugate into a nanostructured photocatalyst†

Simone Adorinni,

^a Giulio Goti,

^b Lorenzo Rizzo,

^b Federica Grassi,^b Slavko Kralj,

^cd Fatima Matroodi,^e Mirco Natali,

^f Rita De Zorzi,

^a Silvia Marchesan

*^a and Luca Dell’Amico

*^b

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^a Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Dept., University of Trieste, V. Giorgieri 1, Trieste 34127, Italy
E-mail: smarchesan@units.it

^b Chemical Sciences Dept., University of Padova, V. Marzolo 1, Padova 35131, Italy
E-mail: luca.dellamico@unipd.it

^c Materials Synthesis Dept., Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia

^d Pharmaceutical Technology Dept., University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 7, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia

^e Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Basovizza, Trieste 34149, Italy

^f Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara, V. Borsari 46, Ferrara 44121, Italy

Abstract

The conjugation of photoactive benzophenone with diphenylalanine yielded a self-assembling photocatalyst that was probed in the E → Z photoisomerisation of stilbene derivatives.

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Self-assembly of benzophenone-diphenylalanine conjugate into a nanostructured photocatalyst†

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