Chemical Communications

Synthesis and self-assembly of propeller-shaped amphiphilic molecules

KS Moon, E Lee, M Lee

Index: Moon, Kyung-Soo; Lee, Eunji; Lee, Myongsoo Chemical Communications, 2008 , # 26 p. 3061 - 3063

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Abstract

Self-assembly of aromatic π-conjugated systems in solution can be widely utilized to construct unique, complex supramolecular structures. 1 In particular, incorporation of highly flexible chains into a rigid aromatic segment can give rise to a variety of well-defined nanoscopic architectures including cylinders, 2 ribbons 3 and vesicles. 4 These self-assembled architectures can be manipulated by variation of molecular shape and volume fraction of specific segments. For example, ...