Royal Society of Chemistry, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 31(20), p. 6201-6210, 2022
DOI: 10.1039/d2ob00472k
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We investigated the photochemistry of ternary complexes of a cucurbit[8]uril host and donor–acceptor stilbene guests. We found that slow back electron transfer rates allow [2 + 2] photocycloadditions to proceed after photoinitiated charge transfer.