Self-assembly of supramolecular tris(crown ether) hexagons with dendritic dibenzylammonium cations

  • Xing Dong Xu
  • , Jiang Kun Ou-Yang
  • , Jing Zhang
  • , Yan Yan Zhang
  • , Han Yuan Gong*
  • , Yihua Yu
  • , Hai Bo Yang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The self-assembly process of a supramolecular tris(crown ether) hexagon with [G-1]-[G-3] dendritic dibenzylammonium cations was described. The resulted novel dendrimer systems organized with multiple intermolecular weak interactions were characterized with one-dimensional multinuclear (1H and 31P) and two-dimensional (1H-1H NOESY and ROESY) NMR spectroscopy as well as CSI-TOF-MS spectrometry. It was found that with the introduction of multiple non-covalent intermolecular interactions, supramolecular self-assembly with multiple simple building blocks can effectively form complex higher order dendrimer system. This study implies a simple strategy (i.e., supramolecular self-assembly) to obtain novel dendrimer systems, which have received extensively attention not only for their esthetic beauty but also for their potential utility in a variety of applications where their structures and interiors are of potential benefit.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1086-1091
Number of pages6
JournalTetrahedron
Volume69
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jan 2013

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