A Discrete Platinum(II) Amphiphile: Construction, Characterization, and Controllable Self-Assembly in Different Solvents
"Coordination-driven self-assembly" offers us an efficient method to fabricate 3D metallacages and 2D metallacycles with controllable shape and size via simple building blocks. Herein, a new discrete platinum(II) amphiphile ( ), which contains hydrophilic tris(ethylene oxide) chains and a...
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Published in | Inorganic chemistry Vol. 59; no. 12; pp. 7924 - 7927 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
15.06.2020
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Summary: | "Coordination-driven self-assembly" offers us an efficient method to fabricate 3D metallacages and 2D metallacycles with controllable shape and size via simple building blocks. Herein, a new discrete platinum(II) amphiphile (
), which contains hydrophilic tris(ethylene oxide) chains and a hydrophobic porphyrin unit, was constructed successfully by using "coordination-driven self-assembly". From various characterization methods, such as UV-vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and small-angle X-ray scattering, we found that
can self-assemble into vesicles, curved vesicles with open ends, and at last stable bilayer nanotubes in aqueous solution at room temperature and flexible cross-linked structures at about 60 °C. In contrast,
formed rigid bilayer nanosheets of micrometers in width and millimeters in length in
-hexane. We hope this investigation will pave the way for the fabrication of controllable soft materials. |
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ISSN: | 0020-1669 1520-510X |
DOI: | 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01164 |