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- Title
Gated Electron Sharing Within Dynamic Naphthalene Diimide-Based Oligorotaxanes.
- Authors
Avestro, Alyssa‐Jennifer; Gardner, Daniel M.; Vermeulen, Nicolaas A.; Wilson, Eleanor A.; Schneebeli, Severin T.; Whalley, Adam C.; Belowich, Matthew E.; Carmieli, Raanan; Wasielewski, Michael R.; Stoddart, J. Fraser
- Abstract
The controlled self-assembly of well-defined and spatially ordered π-systems has attracted considerable interest because of their potential applications in organic electronics. An important contemporary pursuit relates to the investigation of charge transport across noncovalently coupled components in a stepwise fashion. Dynamic oligorotaxanes, prepared by template-directed methods, provide a scaffold for directing the construction of monodisperse one-dimensional assemblies in which the functional units communicate electronically through-space by way of π-orbital interactions. Reported herein is a series of oligorotaxanes containing one, two, three and four naphthalene diimide (NDI) redox-active units, which have been shown by cyclic voltammetry, and by EPR and ENDOR spectroscopies, to share electrons across the NDI stacks. Thermally driven motions between the neighboring NDI units in the oligorotaxanes influence the passage of electrons through the NDI stacks in a manner reminiscent of the conformationally gated charge transfer observed in DNA.
- Subjects
NAPHTHALENE; IMIDES; ORGANIC electronics; CHARGE transfer; UNIFORM polymers; CYCLIC voltammetry; ELECTRON paramagnetic resonance
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 17, p4442
- ISSN
1433-7851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/anie.201309680