title: Preparation of a poly-nanocage dynamer: correlating the growth of polymer strands using constitutional dynamic chemistry and heteroleptic aggregation.
abstract: A metallosupramolecular prismatic nanocage with altogether six reactive aldehyde terminals was utilized as a sophisticated "monomer" in a template-directed constitutional dynamic imine polymerization to prepare an unprecedented triple-stranded dynamer. To analyze the correlated growth in its three congener strands, a fully covalent triple-armed star polymer was fabricated from the metallodynamer through capping, imine reduction, and removal of the template. Atomic force microscopy analysis of 68 triple-armed star polymer molecules suggests that the growth of their arms is correlated to ~72%.
authors.affiliation: Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and Engineering, Organische Chemie I, Universität Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Strasse 2, D-57068 Siegen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Manik
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lal Saha
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schönherr
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmittel