Self-assembled lipid nanotube hosts: The dimension control for encapsulation of nanometer-scale guest substances

Supramolecular nanotube hosts with precisely controlled inner or outer diameters have been synthesized by self-assembly of unsymmetrical bolaamphiphilic monomers or glucopyranosylamide lipids, respectively. Time-resolved fluorescent measurement using 8-anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonate (ANS) as a probe revealed that the water confined in a cardanyl-β-D -glucopyranoside lipid nanotube has relatively lower solvent polarity corresponding to that of propanol than bulk water. Extensively developed hydrogen bond networks also characterize the confined water in comparison to the case in bulk water. Encapsulation ability of the glucopyranosylamide lipid nanotube has been examined by filling the lyophilized LNTs with gold or silver nanoparticles, ferritin, or magnetic crystals. Filling the unsymmetrical bolaamphiphile nanotube possessing positively charged inner surfaces with negatively charged polymer beads or ferritin proved to be successful without depending on capillary action. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 5137–5152, 2006     

Effect of stoichiometry on liquid crystalline supramolecular polymers formed with complementary nucleobase pair interactions

We report herein studies on the liquid crystalline behavior of a series of supramolecular materials that contain different ratios of two complementary symmetrically-substituted alkoxy-bis(phenylethynyl)benzene AA- and BB-type monomers. One monomer has thymine units placed at either end of the rigid mesogenic core, while the other has N⁶-(4-methoxybenzoyl)-adenine units placed on the ends. Differential scanning calorimetric and polarized optical microscopy studies have been carried out on these systems. These studies show that the material's behavior is strongly dependent on its thermal history. As a result, the materials can exhibit, on heating, either a liquid crystalline phase, a crystalline phase, or the coexistence of crystalline and liquid crystalline regions. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 5049–5059, 2006     

一种由[Ag(CN)2]-和Mn(Ⅱ)建筑块组装的三个三维网穿插的超分子配合物的结构和荧光性质

0 Introduction Recently, a considerable effort on crystal engi- neering has been devoted to the research of supramolecular assemblies because they show abun- dant topologic structures and offer possibilities for po- tential applications of functional mate…     

Catalysis of nucleophilic substitution reactions in supramolecular systems

The factors determining the catalytic effect of supramolecular systems on the nucleophilic substitution reactions are analyzed. The role of the structural and phase transitions of nanoaggregates in the catalytic mechanism are determined. The substrate specificity is shown for different structures of the supramolecular composition.     

新颖的二维超分子化合物[CoⅢ(aea)(2,2''''-bipy)]Cl·H2O的水热合成及结构表征

0IntroductionInrecentyearsgreatattentionhasbeenpaidtosupramolecularchemistryandawidevarietyofnet鄄workshavealreadybeenconstructedbasedupontheprincipleofcrystalengineering[1~3].Usually,variousmultifunctionalorganicligands,bothrigidandflexiblemulticarboxyli…     

配合物形成的三维超分子体系—[Ni(C_6H_4O_2N)_2(H_2O)_4]的水热法合成、晶体结构及热分析

采用水热法用Ni(NO3)26H2O和异烟酸制备出了一种新的由配合物形成的三维超分子体系—[Ni(C6H4O2N)2(H2O)4],并通过X射线衍射对其晶体结构进行了测定。 该晶体属三斜晶系,空间群为Pī, 所得晶胞参数为: a = 6.9228(4), b = 9.6664(19),c = 6.322(1) , a = 96.86(3), b = 113.33(3), g = 110.35(3)°, V = 347.6(1) 3, Z = 1, Mr = 374.98, Dc = 1.791 g/cm3, F(000) = 194, m = 1.443 mm-1。用1362个可观察的 (I > 2s(I))衍射点,修正123个结构参数, 最终偏离因子R = 0.0444,wR = 0.1271。在组成该化合物的基本结构单元[Ni(C6H4O2N)2(H2O)4]中,Ni处于1个稍微拉长的八面体的中心; 各个结构单元之间通过氢键OH…O相互连接,形成了无限伸展的具有层状结构的三维超分子体系。 另外,从差热及热重曲线可以看出,该化合物加热到154 ℃时开始分解, 首先失去4个H2O,再失去2个异烟酸根,最后残余物为NiO。     

Supramolecular structures of macromolecules containing bipyridine–copper(I) complexes as revealed from transmission electron microscopy studies

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies on bipyridine (bpy) containing block copolymer systems showed the formation of nanoscopic polymer–ion complexes through complexation with copper(I) ions which segregated to highly ordered columnar domains of mesoscopic dimensions. The domains, i.e. stacks of [(bpy)₂Cu(I)] complex moieties could be visualized by complementary TEM techniques. First, electron energy loss spectra (EELS) showed the absorption edges of copper and nitrogen, which are specific for the bipyridine copper complexes. The element spectroscopic imaging (ESI) technique allowed the imaging of the net copper and net nitrogen distribution, and the coinciding pictures exhibited a microphase separated system in the case of a 3-block copolymer with complexed end segments. High resolution elastic bright field images showed interference lines with a line to line distance of about 8 A which could be related to the Cu–Cu distance in staggered Cu(I)–bipyridine complexes. Received: 6 August 1997 Accepted: 28 April 1998