The synthesis of organic charge transfer hetero-microtubules by crack welding

J Kim; J Chung; J Hyon; T Kwon; C Seo; J Nam; Y Kang

doi:10.1039/c4cc04602a

The synthesis of organic charge transfer hetero-microtubules by crack welding

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Sep 14;50(71):10258-61. doi: 10.1039/c4cc04602a.

Authors

J Kim¹, J Chung, J Hyon, T Kwon, C Seo, J Nam, Y Kang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-Ro, Seongdong-Gu, Seoul, 133-791 Korea. youngjkang@hanyang.ac.kr.

PMID: 25054622
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc04602a

Abstract

The strain-induced cracks in organic microtubules composed of an organic charge transfer (CT) complex of 1,2,4,5-tetracyanobenzene (TCNB) and naphthalene were selectively welded via the formation of secondary CT complexes; this process, in turn, led to the formation of organic hetero-microtubules consisting of multiple segments of two organic CT complexes.