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Solvent‐Driven Supramolecular Wrapping of Self‐Assembled Structures

Moreno-Alcántar, Guillermo; Aliprandi, Alessandro; Rouquette, Remi; Pesce, Luca; Wurst, Klaus; Perego, Claudio; Brüggeller, Peter; Pavan, Giovanni M.; De Cola, Luisa

Abstract:

Self‐assembly relies on the ability of smaller and discrete entities to spontaneously arrange into more organized systems by means of the structure‐encoded information. Herein, we show that the design of the media can play a role even more important than the chemical design. The media not only determines the self‐assembly pathway at a single‐component level, but in a very narrow solvent composition, a supramolecular homo‐aggregate can be non‐covalently wrapped by a second component that possesses a different crystal lattice. Such a process has been followed in real time by confocal microscopy thanks to the different emission colors of the aggregates formed by two isolated PtII complexes. This coating is reversible and controlled by the media composition. Single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction and molecular simulations based on coarse‐grained (CG) models allowed the understanding of the properties displayed by the different aggregates. Such findings could result in a new method to construct hierarchical supramolecular structures.


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000131223
Veröffentlicht am 08.04.2021
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202013474
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Zitationen: 12
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Nanotechnologie (INT)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 03.2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0044-8249, 1521-3757
KITopen-ID: 1000131223
HGF-Programm 43.31.02 (POF IV, LK 01) Devices and Applications
Erschienen in Angewandte Chemie
Verlag John Wiley and Sons
Band 133
Heft 10
Seiten 5467–5473
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 21.01.2021
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