Hiromitsu Maeda, Yohei Haketa, Tomoki Murata, Eriko Ohta, Tai Murata and Nobuhiro Yasuda
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021,19, 7369-7373
DOI:
10.1039/D1OB01094H,
Communication
The introduction of a carboxy unit onto dipyrrolyldiketone skeletons was achieved by complexation with arylfluoroboron moieties bearing an acid group. Carboxylate-appended anion-responsive π-electronic molecules, formed upon deprotonation, provided anion-binding self-assemblies, as anionic supramolecular polymers, resulting in ion-pairing assemblies.