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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
Published on: February 7, 2017
Supramolecular multicomponent self-assembly of shape-adaptive nanoprisms: wrapping up C(60) with three porphyrin
Michael Schmittel1, Bice He, Prasenjit Mal
1Center for Micro- and Nanochemistry and Engineering, Organische Chemie I, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany. schmittel@chemie.uni-siegen.de
Abstract:
Self-assembly of a C(3v) symmetric trisphenanthroline and linear bisterpyridines in the presence of Cu(+) did not furnish the expected supramolecular nanoprisms in quantitative yield. With an accurately sized tripyridine as a stabilizing template, the nanoprism formed exclusively. Furthermore, an adaptive constriction of the nanoprism was seen with C(60) as template: as a result of the smaller size of C(60) the nanoframework wrapped up around the guest like an accordion-type host system.

