School of Chemistry, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, School of Chemistry, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 Jul 16;51(29):7208-12. doi: 10.1002/anie.201201506. Epub 2012 Jun 11.
Eu(III), the last piece in the puzzle: Europium-induced self-assembly of ligands having a C(3)-symmetrical benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide core results in the formation of luminescent gels. Supramolecular polymers are formed through hydrogen bonding between the ligands. The polymers are then brought together into the gel assembly through the coordination of terpyridine ends by Eu(III) ions (blue dashed arrow: distance between two ligands in the strand direction).
Eu(III),拼图的最后一块:具有 C(3)对称苯-1,3,5-三羧酸酰胺核心的配体在 Eu(III)的诱导下自组装,形成发光凝胶。超分子聚合物通过配体之间的氢键形成。然后,通过 Eu(III)离子的三吡啶端的配位(蓝色虚线箭头:链状方向上两个配体之间的距离)将聚合物聚集在一起形成凝胶组装体。