Issue 8, 2018

Controllable supramolecular polymerization via a chain-growth mechanism

Abstract

A naphthalene-diimide appended carboxylic acid either spontaneously self-assembles (P) by an open-chain H-bonding or can be arrested in an intra-molecularly H-bonded monomeric state (M) depending on the sample preparation method. Sonication of P produces a seed (S) that triggers controllable supramolecular polymerization (SP) of M via a chain growth route with first order kinetics, a tunable mesoscopic structure and a living nature as demonstrated by the chain-extension up to three cycles. SP of an achiral M, initiated by a chiral S, illustrates chiral amplification by the “sergeant and soldiers” effect.

Graphical abstract: Controllable supramolecular polymerization via a chain-growth mechanism

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 okt 2017
Accepted
25 dec 2017
First published
02 jan 2018

Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 928-931

Controllable supramolecular polymerization via a chain-growth mechanism

D. S. Pal, H. Kar and S. Ghosh, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 928 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC08302E

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