Self-Assembly of Triangular and Hexagonal Molecular Necklaces

Li, Shijun; Huang, Jianying; Zhou, Fengyan; Cook, Timothy R.; Yan, Xuzhou; Ye, Yang; Zhu, Bin; Zheng, Bo; Stang, Peter J.

doi:10.1021/ja502490k

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“…SCCs typically display well-defined internal cavities with size and shape tunability, which provides the impetus for applications in host-guest chemistry [20][21][22] , catalysis 23 , molecular flasks 24 , supramolecular polymers [25][26][27] , bioengineering 28 and so on. Although quite a few metal complexes with attractive optical features are known 29,30 , light-emitting materials based on SCC platforms are relatively underdeveloped despite their prospects as advanced optical materials 31 .…”

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Highly emissive platinum(II) metallacages

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Light-emitting materials, especially those with tunable wavelengths, attract considerable attention for applications in optoelectronic devices, fluorescent probes, sensors and so on. Many species evaluated for these purposes either emit as a dilute solution or on aggregation, with the former often self-quenching at high concentrations, and the latter falling dark when aggregation is disrupted. Here we preserve emissive behaviour at both low- and high-concentration regimes for two discrete supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs). These tetragonal prismatic SCCs are self-assembled on mixing a metal acceptor, Pt(PEt3)2(OSO2CF3)2, with two organic donors, a pyridyl-decorated tetraphenylethylene and one of two benzene dicarboxylate species. The rigid organization of these fluorescence-active ligands imparts an emissive behaviour to dilute solutions of the resulting assemblies. Furthermore, on aggregation the prisms exhibit variable-wavelength visible-light emission, including rare white-light emission in tetrahydrofuran. The favourable photophysical properties and solvent-dependent aggregation behaviour provide a means to tune emission wavelengths.

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“…So far, various SCCs with different geometries, such as 2D metallacycles (25)(26)(27)(28) and 3D metallacages (29)(30)(31)(32), were successfully prepared by the self-assembly of carefully selected metal acceptors and organic donors. Moreover, metal−ligand interactions show good tolerance of other noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding and host−guest interactions, which were used to construct highly advanced functional supramolecular entities, such as mechanically interlocked molecules (33)(34)(35) and supramolecular polymers (36)(37)(38), via orthogonal self-assembly.…”

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“…Although some progress has been made on the functionalization of metallacycles to construct stimuli-responsive supramolecular complexes and polymers (33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38), the covalent linkage (39-41) of metallacycles to synthesize functional polymers has rarely been reported. The main difficulty of this strategy lies in how to maintain the dynamic metallacycle structures during the linking process.…”

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Fluorescent metallacycle-cored polymers via covalent linkage and their use as contrast agents for cell imaging

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The covalent linkage of supramolecular monomers provides a powerful strategy for constructing dynamic polymeric materials whose properties can be readily tuned either by the selection of monomers or the choice of functional linkers. In this strategy, the stabilities of the supramolecular monomers and the reactions used to link the monomers are crucial because such monomers are normally dynamic and can disassemble during the linking process, leading to mixture of products. Therefore, although noncovalent interactions have been widely introduced into metallacycle structures to prepare metallosupramolecular polymers, metallacyclecored polymers linked by covalent bonds have been rarely reported. Herein, we used the mild, highly efficient amidation reaction between alkylamine and N-hydroxysuccinimide-activated carboxylic acid to link the pendent amino functional groups of a rhomboidal metallacycle 10 to give metallacycle-cored polymers P1 and P2, which further yielded nanoparticles at low concentration and transformed into network structures as the concentration increased. Moreover, these polymers exhibited enhanced emission and showed better quantum yields than metallacycle 10 in methanol and methanol/water (1/9, vol/vol) due to the aggregationinduced emission properties of a tetraphenylethene-based pyridyl donor, which serves as a precursor for metallacycle 10. The fluorescence properties of these polymers were further used in cell imaging, and they showed a significant enrichment in lung cells after i.v. injection. Considering the anticancer activity of rhomboidal Pt(II) metallacycles, this type of fluorescent metallacycle-cored polymers can have potential applications toward lung cancer treatment.fluorescent polymers | supramolecular coordination complex | covalent linkage | aggregation-induced emission | cell imaging F luorescent polymers have received much attention in the chemical and life sciences due to their promising applications in biological labeling, tracking, monitoring, imaging, and diagnostics (1-3). Compared with other fluorophores such as small molecules and quantum dots, they are advantageous as biomaterials because of their good biocompatibility, ease of preparation, and biomimetic character (4-6). Conventional fluorophores show good emission in dilute solution but experience varying degrees of aggregation-caused quenching due to the intense intermolecular interactions, which will decay or relax the excited state back to the ground state via nonradiative channels (7). Such fluorophores are not ideal candidates for the preparation of fluorescent polymers, because they need to be aggregated by the polymerization process, which will more or less decrease the fluorescence emissions and the quantum yields of the derived fluorescent polymers.In 2001, Tang and coworkers (8) reported an opposite fluorescence effect named as aggregation-induced emission (AIE). In such cases, fluorophores are nearly nonemissive as discrete molecules, but they exhibit strong fluorescence in concentrated solution or in the s...

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“…[24] Li and Stang et al prepared a [4]molecular necklace and a [7]molecular necklace through the orthogonality of coordination-driven self-assembly and crown-ether hostÀguest complexation based on a well-developed recognition motif of 1,2bis(pyridinium)ethane/dibenzo [24]crown-8 (DB24C8). [25] As shown in Scheme 1, [4]molecular necklace 5 was obtained by adding 4.0 equiv. of 4 (DB24C8) per bis(pyridinium) ligand into the acetone solution of triangular metallacycle 3 and then stirring the solution for 3 days at room temperature.…”

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Coordination‐Driven Self‐Assembly of Functionalized Supramolecular Metallacycles: Highlighted Research during 2010–2018

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Israel Journal of Chemistry

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During the past few decades, the construction of macrocyclic molecules/complexes has attracted considerable attention because of their wide applications in sensing, catalysis, molecular machine, drug delivery, etc. Coordination‐driven self‐assembly has proven to be a simple yet highly efficient approach for the preparation of various supramolecular metallacycles with the predetermined shapes and sizes as well as the distribution and total number of functional groups. Since the significant progress has been made during the last few years in the field of coordination‐driven self‐assembly, it is time to summarize the recent development in coordination‐driven self‐assembly of functionalized supramolecular metallacycles. In this review, we will highlight some recent advances concerning the preparation of functionalized supramolecular metallacycles via coordination‐driven self‐assembly between the year 2010–2018. In addition, the properties and the applications of these metallacycles in the areas of photo‐ and electrochemistry, sensing, supramolecular gel, biological applications, etc. will be also discussed.

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Self-Assembly of Triangular and Hexagonal Molecular Necklaces

Cited by 135 publications

References 71 publications

Highly emissive platinum(II) metallacages

Highly emissive platinum(II) metallacages

Fluorescent metallacycle-cored polymers via covalent linkage and their use as contrast agents for cell imaging

Coordination‐Driven Self‐Assembly of Functionalized Supramolecular Metallacycles: Highlighted Research during 2010–2018

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