Stimuli-responsive supramolecular gels through hierarchical self-assembly of discrete rhomboidal metallacycles

Guang Zheng Zhao, Li Jun Chen, Wei Wang, Jing Zhang, Guang Yang, De Xian Wang, Yihua Yu, Hai Bo Yang

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Abstract

A new class of supramolecular organometallic gels with a discrete rhomboidal metallacycle as the main skeleton was fabricated through hierarchical self-assembly (see figure). More importantly, by taking advantage of the dynamic nature of metal-ligand bonds, the stimuli-responsive gel-sol transition of the obtained gels was realized by disassembly and reassembly of the rhomboidal scaffold as controlled by bromide anions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10094-10100
Number of pages7
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume19
Issue number31
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Jul 2013

Keywords

  • gels
  • metallacycles
  • platinum
  • self-assembly
  • supramolecular chemistry

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