Issue 16, 2018
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Polymer Chemistry

Photothermal Möbius aromatic metallapentalenofuran and its NIR-responsive copolymer†

Zhengyu Lu,ab   Yuanting Cai,b   Yuanqing Wei,b   Qin Lin,a   Jiangxi Chen, ORCID logo *a   Xumin He,b   Shunhua Li,b   Weitai Wu ORCID logo b  and  Haiping Xia ORCID logo *b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
E-mail: chenjx@xmu.edu.cn

b State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
E-mail: hpxia@xmu.edu.cn

Abstract

Möbius aromatics are very interesting and rare complexes owing to their brand-new chemistry and interesting properties. In this work, metallapentalenofurans with thiophene groups were easily prepared from the reaction of metallapentalyne, terminal arylalkynes, and water in air. The metallapentalenofuran containing a terthiophene moiety showed a good photothermal effect and was the first photothermal Möbius aromatic complex induced by J-aggregates. This photothermal metallapentalenofuran was chemically modified to carry an olefinic group and then was co-polymerized with oligo-(ethylene glycol)methacrylate to afford a thermoresponsive copolymer, whose phase transition behavior can be triggered by near-infrared radiation at 808 nm. This near-infrared-responsive metal-containing copolymer represents a new stimuli-responsive macromolecule.

Graphical abstract: Photothermal Möbius aromatic metallapentalenofuran and its NIR-responsive copolymer

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8PY00176F
Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Jan 2018
Accepted
15 Mar 2018
First published
15 Mar 2018

Polym. Chem., 2018,9, 2092-2100

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Photothermal Möbius aromatic metallapentalenofuran and its NIR-responsive copolymer

Z. Lu, Y. Cai, Y. Wei, Q. Lin, J. Chen, X. He, S. Li, W. Wu and H. Xia, Polym. Chem., 2018, 9, 2092 DOI: 10.1039/C8PY00176F

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