Using anion recognition to control the folding and unfolding of a single chain phosphorescent polymer

Xiaofan Ji; Chenxing Guo; Xian-Sheng Ke; Xiaodong Chi; Matthew D Moore; Jonathan L Sessler

doi:10.1039/c7cc04895e

Using anion recognition to control the folding and unfolding of a single chain phosphorescent polymer

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Aug 11;53(62):8774-8777. doi: 10.1039/c7cc04895e. Epub 2017 Jul 21.

Authors

Xiaofan Ji¹, Chenxing Guo¹, Xian-Sheng Ke¹, Xiaodong Chi¹, Matthew D Moore, Jonathan L Sessler¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Stop A5300, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. sessler@cm.utexas.edu.

Abstract

We report here the use of anion recognition to control the folding and unfolding of a single polymeric chain consisting of a PMMA bearing pendant calix[4]pyrrole and Pt(ii) porphyrin subunits.

Grants and funding

R01 GM103790/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States