Stefan Durben, T. Baumgartner
Aug 16, 2011
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Angewandte Chemie
Abstract
4,4’-Bipyridine (1) and its N-alkylated congeners are classic organic building blocks that have been utilized in a variety of fields, such as photochemistry, electrochemistry, solarenergy conversion, and as bridging ligands in metallosupramolecular assemblies, or molecular wires. Methylviologen MV, or paraquat, easily accessible from 4,4’-bipyridine by methylation (Scheme 1), is frequently used as a photo-