Interfacial assembly of a series of Cu(II)-coordinated Schiff bases complexes: orderly nanostructures and supramolecular chirality

By TiFeng Jiao, XuHui Li, QingRui Zhang, QiuRong Li, JingXin Zhou, FaMing Gao

July 28, 2017

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Title

Interfacial assembly of a series of Cu(II)-coordinated Schiff bases complexes: orderly nanostructures and supramolecular chirality

Author

TiFeng Jiao, XuHui Li, QingRui Zhang, QiuRong Li, JingXin Zhou, FaMing Gao

Year

2013

Journal

Science China Technological Sciences

Abstract

Four achiral Cu(II)-coordinated Schiff bases complexes containing aromatic structures were synthesized and their supramolecular assemblies at the air/water interface were investigated. All the compounds could be spread on water surface although they have no alkyl chains. The Schiff base complex molecules with naphthyl groups tended to form J-aggregate in the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films transferred from water surface. By investigation of atomic force microscopy, a multilayer film or three-dimensional structures were observed. It was interesting to note that the LB films of achiral compound Cu-NA with naphthyl segment and without methyl groups transferred from water surface showed chirality. The supramolecular chirality in the present LB films was suggested to be due to a cooperative stereoregular - stacking of the functional groups in a helical sense. This resea

Full Article

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11431-012-5062-8

Instrument

J-810

Keywords

Circular dichroism, Stereochemistry, Coordination chemistry, Materials