Supramolecular assembly-induced yellow emission of 9,10-distyrylanthracene bridged bis(pillar[5]arene)s

Nan Song; Dai-Xiong Chen; Meng-Chan Xia; Xi-Long Qiu; Ke Ma; Bin Xu; Wenjing Tian; Ying-Wei Yang

doi:10.1039/c4cc08205b

Supramolecular assembly-induced yellow emission of 9,10-distyrylanthracene bridged bis(pillar[5]arene)s

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Mar 28;51(25):5526-9. doi: 10.1039/c4cc08205b.

Authors

Nan Song¹, Dai-Xiong Chen, Meng-Chan Xia, Xi-Long Qiu, Ke Ma, Bin Xu, Wenjing Tian, Ying-Wei Yang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, International Joint Research Laboratory of Nano-Macro Architecture Chemistry (NMAC), College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun, 130012, China. ywyang@jlu.edu.cn.

PMID: 25383943
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc08205b

Abstract

9,10-Distyrylanthracene has been introduced to bridge two pillarenes to form a dimeric host, which can assemble into a linear supramolecular polymer upon cooperatively binding to a neutral guest linker, exhibiting yellow fluorescence emission in solution and solid states.