scholarly journals Pillararenes Trimer for Self-Assembly

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huacheng Zhang ◽  
Zhaona Liu ◽  
Hui Fu

Pillararenes trimer with particularly designed structural geometry and excellent capacity of recognizing guest molecules is a very efficient and attractive building block for the fabrication of advanced self-assembled materials. Pillararenes trimers could be prepared via both covalent and noncovalent bonds. The classic organic synthesis reactions such as click reaction, palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction, amidation, esterification, and aminolysis are employed to build covalent bonds and integrate three pieces of pillararenes subunits together into the “star-shaped” trimers and linear foldamers. Alternatively, pillararenes trimers could also be assembled in the form of host-guest inclusions and mechanically interlocked molecules via noncovalent interactions, and during those procedures, pillararenes units contribute the cavity for recognizing guest molecules and act as a “wheel” subunit, respectively. By fully utilizing the driving forces such as host-guest interactions, charge transfer, hydrophobic, hydrogen bonding, and C–H…π and π–π stacking interactions, pillararenes trimers-based supramolecular self-assemblies provide a possibility in the construction of multi-dimensional materials such as vesicular and tubular aggregates, layered networks, as well as frameworks. Interestingly, those assembled materials exhibit interesting external stimuli responsiveness to e.g., variable concentrations, changed pH values, different temperature, as well as the addition/removal of competition guests and ions. Thus, they could further be used for diverse applications such as detection, sorption, and separation of significant multi-analytes including metal cations, anions, and amino acids.

Author(s):  
Huacheng Zhang

Pillararenes trimer with particularly designed structural geometry and excellent capacity of recognizing guest molecules is a very efficient and attractive building block for the fabrication of advanced self-assembled materials. Pillararenes trimers could be prepared via both covalent and noncovalent bonds. The classic organic synthesis reactions such as click reaction, Palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction, amidation, esterification and aminolysis are employed to build covalent bonds and integrate three pieces of pillararenes subunits together into the “star-shaped” trimers and linear foldamers. Alternatively, pillararenes trimers could also be assembled in the form of host-guest inclusions and mechanically interlocked molecules via noncovalent interactions, and during those procedures, pillararenes units contribute the cavity for recognizing guest molecules and act as a “wheel” subunit, respectively. By fully utilizing the driving forces such as host-guest interactions, charge transfer, hydrophobic, hydrogen bonding, C—H…π and π—π stacking interactions, pillararenes trimers-based supramolecular self-assemblies provide a possibility in the construction of multi-dimensional materials such as vesicular and tubular aggregates, layered networks, as well as frameworks. Interestingly, those assembled materials exhibit interesting external stimuli responsiveness to e.g., variable concentrations, changed pH values, different temperature, as well as the addition/removal of competition guests and ions. Thus, they could further be used for diverse applications such as detection, sorption and separation of significant multi-analytes including metal cations, anions and amino acids.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2081-2086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meagan A. Beatty ◽  
Aidan T. Pye ◽  
Alok Shaurya ◽  
Belim Kim ◽  
Allison J. Selinger ◽  
...  

Molecules that assemble through reversible covalent and noncovalent interactions achieve self-assembly at extreme levels of urea and NaCl.


2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (65) ◽  
pp. 9288-9291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenfeng He ◽  
Yufeng Huo ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Duo Pan ◽  
Binbin Dong ◽  
...  

The preparation of host imine macrocycles and the self-assembly aggregation process are merged into one single step for self-assembly to form dynamic imine macrocyclic supramolecular polymers.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 2343-2349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Sun ◽  
Guoqiao Lai ◽  
Zhifang Li ◽  
Yuwen Ma ◽  
Xiao Yuan ◽  
...  

This paper reports the self-assembly of two new tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) derivatives that contain one or two urethane groups. The formation of nanoribbons was evidenced by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), which showed that the self-assembly ability of T 1 was better than that of T 2 . The results revealed that more urethane groups in a molecule did not necessarily instigate self-assembly. UV–vis and FTIR spectra were measured to explore noncovalent interactions. The driving forces for self-assembly of TTF derivatives were mainly hydrogen bond interactions and π–π stacking interactions. The electronic conductivity of the T 1 and T 2 films was tested by a four-probe method.


2012 ◽  
Vol 562-564 ◽  
pp. 405-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Liang Wei ◽  
Ya Li Feng ◽  
Hui Juan Chu ◽  
Kai Yao

A novel kind of supramolecular structrued hydrogels were fabricated by Diels-Alder click reaction between furan-functionalized polypseudorotaxanes and polymeric dienophiles. Firstly, polypseudorotaxanes were prepared by supramolecular self-assembly of furan-terminated poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG) and α-cyclodextrins (CDs) in water. And polymeric dienophiles were synthesized by a coupling reaction between copolymer of hydroxyethyl methacrylate and N,N-dimethyl acrylamide and N-maleoyl alanine (AMI). The supramolecular structured hydrogels were prepared by Diels-Alder reaction in water.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeny Tretyakov ◽  
Svetlana Zhivetyeva ◽  
Pavel Petunin ◽  
Dmitry Gorbunov ◽  
Nina Gritsan ◽  
...  

<p>Verdazyl-nitroxide diradicals were synthesized using the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of the corresponding iodoverdazyls with a nitronyl nitroxide-2-ide gold(I) complex with high yields (up to 82%). The synthesized diradicals were found to be highly thermally stable and have a singlet (D<i>E</i><sub>ST</sub> » -64 cm<sup>–1</sup>) or triplet ground state (D<i>E</i><sub>ST</sub> ³ 25 and 100 cm<sup>–1</sup>), depending on which canonical hydrocarbon diradical type they belong to. Upon crystallization, triplet diradicals form unique one-dimensional (1D) spin <i>S</i> = 1 chains of organic diradicals with intrachain ferromagnetic coupling of <i>J</i>′/<i>k</i><sub>B</sub> from 3 to 6 K.</p>


RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (25) ◽  
pp. 14986-14995
Author(s):  
Suchetha Shetty ◽  
Noorullah Baig ◽  
Atikur Hassan ◽  
Saleh Al-Mousawi ◽  
Neeladri Das ◽  
...  

We report the synthesis of metalorganic copolymers made from the palladium catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction between various iron(ii) clathrochelate building blocks with diethynyl–triptycene and fluorene derivatives.


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