Molecular fibers and wires in solid-state and solution self-assemblies of cyclodextrin [2]rotaxanes.
Cyclodextrin [2]rotaxanes have been prepared by coupling dimethylanilines with dicarboxylic acids using DMT-MM, in aqueous solutions of alpha-cyclodextrin, and the example illustrated shows unusual fluorescence emission and other spectroscopic behavior characteristic of the formation of molecular wires in solution, similar to the fibers observed in the solid state.
Maniam
Subashani
S
Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
Cieslinski
Marta M
MM
Lincoln
Stephen F
SF
Onagi
Hideki
H
Steel
Peter J
PJ
Willis
Anthony C
AC
Easton
Christopher J
CJ
D000814:Aniline Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D003505:Cyclodextrins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D003998:Dicarboxylic Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D043862:Rotaxanes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
D000814:Aniline Compounds; D003505:Cyclodextrins; D003998:Dicarboxylic Acids; D043862:Rotaxanes; C015157:N,N-dimethylaniline