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Published on: June 26, 2020
Host-guest interaction manipulated self-assembly of pyridinium-tailored naphthalene
Peiyi Wang1, Yuan Lin, Mark Smith
1State Key Lab Breeding Base of Green Pesticide & Agricultural Bioengineering Centre for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China. yangsdqj@126.com.
Abstract:
Host–guest interactions are employed to manipulate the assembled morphology of an amphiphile, 2-NP, which contains an electron-rich naphthalene group and an electron-deficient pyridinium cation linked with a flexible alkyl arm. By encapsulating the pyridinium and the naphthalene group of 2-NP into the cavity of cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]), fluorescence-enhanced microsheets were formed.

