Backbone-directed perylene dye self-assembly into oligomer stacks.
Arm wrestling: Backbone-directed "arm-to-arm" aggregation of a newly designed perylene bisimide (PBI) dyad with a defined intramolecular space leads to the growth of kinetically stable extended PBI π-stacks. This PBI dyad was shown to assemble into oligomers up to 21 units in length.
Universität Würzburg, Institut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg (Germany).
Changzhun
C
Shao
Matthias
M
Stolte
Frank
F
Würthner
dyes/pigments; kinetics; self-assembly; thermodynamics; π-stacking