We have investigated in detail the self-assembly of, a chiral porphyrin trimer in different solvents and correlated this behavior to the aggregation of the molecule at a solid-liquid interface. In n-hexane and cyclohexane, CID spectroscopy and dynamic and static light scattering studies showed that the porphyrin trimer self-assembles already at micromolar concentrations into long, chiral supramolecular polymers, which precipitate as fibers when the solution is drop-cast onto a mica surface. In contrast, in chloroform, the compound is molecularly dissolved up to concentrations of 0.2 mM and when micromolar solutions are drop-cast onto mica, no precipitation of large assemblies occurs. Instead, at the moment that the chloroform film becomes subject to spinodal dewetting and the porphyrin trimers; within this film start to self-assemble, extended patterns of equidistant lines of single molecule thick columnar stacks are formed
Supramolecular porphyrin polymers in solution and at the solid-liquid interface
V Villari;N Micali;
2008
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We have investigated in detail the self-assembly of, a chiral porphyrin trimer in different solvents and correlated this behavior to the aggregation of the molecule at a solid-liquid interface. In n-hexane and cyclohexane, CID spectroscopy and dynamic and static light scattering studies showed that the porphyrin trimer self-assembles already at micromolar concentrations into long, chiral supramolecular polymers, which precipitate as fibers when the solution is drop-cast onto a mica surface. In contrast, in chloroform, the compound is molecularly dissolved up to concentrations of 0.2 mM and when micromolar solutions are drop-cast onto mica, no precipitation of large assemblies occurs. Instead, at the moment that the chloroform film becomes subject to spinodal dewetting and the porphyrin trimers; within this film start to self-assemble, extended patterns of equidistant lines of single molecule thick columnar stacks are formedFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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