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A porphyrin-centred fullerene tetramer containing an N@C60 substituent.

ABSTRACT: An N@C60-containing C60 tetramer was synthesized by quadruple 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (Prato) reaction. This molecule demonstrates the N@C60 qubit's ability to form covalently linked arrays. Furthermore, it provides a promising scaffold with which to measure multiple qubit-qubit interactions; which must be well characterized for a functioning quantum information processing architecture.

SUBMITTER: Macpherson H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6083688 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A porphyrin-centred fullerene tetramer containing an N@C60 substituent.

Macpherson Harry H Cornes Stuart S Zhou Shen S Porfyrakis Kyriakos K

Royal Society open science 20180718 7

An N@C60-containing C60 tetramer was synthesized by quadruple 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (Prato) reaction. This molecule demonstrates the N@C60 qubit's ability to form covalently linked arrays. Furthermore, it provides a promising scaffold with which to measure multiple qubit-qubit interactions; which must be well characterized for a functioning quantum information processing architecture. ...[more]

PMID: 30109089

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A porphyrin-centred fullerene tetramer containing an N@C60 substituent.

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A porphyrin-centred fullerene tetramer containing an N@C<sub>60</sub> substituent.

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