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SUBMITTER: Olesinska M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849629 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olesińska Magdalena M Wu Guanglu G Gómez-Coca Silvia S Antón-García Daniel D Szabó Istvan I Rosta Edina E Scherman Oren A OA
Chemical science 20190812 38
Cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) mediated assembly of extended aryl viologens (EVs) into optically tunable dimers is reported for the first time. We show that the modular design and synthesis of a new class of π-conjugated viologen derivatives with rigid aromatic or heteroaromatic bridging units as well as electron donating molecular recognition motifs enable their self-assembly into 2 : 2 complexes with CB[8]. The quantitative dimerization process involving these two molecular components in an aqueous s ...[more]