Heterosupramolecular chemistry: programmed pseudorotaxane assembly at the surface of a nanocrystal
D Fitzmaurice1, S N Rao, J A Preece
1Department of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: (+353) 1-706-2441. donald.fitzmaurice@ucd.ie.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|August 21, 2014
Abstract:
Gold nanocrystals, stabilized by thiols covalently bound to a dibenzo[24]crown-8 moiety, have been programmed to recognize and selectively bind dibenzylammonium cations in solution. This results in a self-organization process at the surface of a nanocrystal with the assembly of a pseudorotaxane (see picture).
