Nanostructured Molecular Systems and Materials Group, Organic Chemistry Department , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Madrid 28049 , Spain.
Laboratory of Self-Organizing Soft Matter, Laboratory of Macro-Organic Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry & Institute for Complex Molecular Systems , Eindhoven University of Technology , P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB , The Netherlands.
J Am Chem Soc. 2019 Oct 16;141(41):16432-16438. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b07868. Epub 2019 Sep 24.
Because of their wide number of biological functions and potential applications, self-assembled nanotubes constitute highly relevant targets in noncovalent synthesis. Herein, we introduce a novel approach to produce supramolecular nanotubes with defined inner and outer diameters from rigid rod-like monomers programmed with complementary nucleobases through two distinct, decoupled cooperative processes of different hierarchy and acting in orthogonal directions: chelate cooperativity, responsible for the formation of robust Watson-Crick H-bonded cyclic tetramers, and nucleation-growth cooperative polymerization.
由于其广泛的生物学功能和潜在应用,自组装纳米管成为非共价合成中高度相关的目标。在此,我们引入了一种新方法,通过具有互补碱基的刚性棒状单体,经过两个不同层次且相互正交的协同过程,制备具有确定内径和外径的超分子纳米管:螯合协同作用,负责形成稳定的沃森-克里克氢键环状四聚体;成核-生长协同聚合。