Self-assembly of metal-ion-responsive supramolecular coordination complexes and their photophysical properties

Zuoli He; Meng Li; Wenxiu Que; Peter J Stang

doi:10.1039/c7dt00174f

Self-assembly of metal-ion-responsive supramolecular coordination complexes and their photophysical properties

Dalton Trans. 2017 Mar 7;46(10):3120-3124. doi: 10.1039/c7dt00174f.

Authors

Zuoli He¹, Meng Li², Wenxiu Que³, Peter J Stang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, International Center for Dielectric Research, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China. zuoli.he@utah.edu wxque@xjtu.edu.cn and Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. stang@chem.utah.edu.
² Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang, 37363, Republic of Korea.
³ Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, International Center for Dielectric Research, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China. zuoli.he@utah.edu wxque@xjtu.edu.cn.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. stang@chem.utah.edu.

PMID: 28203666
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt00174f

Abstract

Herein, we describe the synthesis and characterization of two newly self-assembled supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) by using the cis-{Pt(PEt₃)₂}²⁺ center and two different kinds of pyridyl-derivatized ligands. The photophysical properties of the resulting SCCs in the presence of metal ions revealed that these dipyridyl-containing SCCs hold potential as metal-ion-responsive materials.