Photo-responsive reversible assembly of gold nanoparticles coated with pillar[5]arenes

Qizhong Zhou; Bin Zhang; Deman Han; Rener Chen; Fangli Qiu; Jiashou Wu; Hujiang Jiang

doi:10.1039/c4cc09778e

Photo-responsive reversible assembly of gold nanoparticles coated with pillar[5]arenes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Feb 21;51(15):3124-6. doi: 10.1039/c4cc09778e.

Authors

Qizhong Zhou¹, Bin Zhang, Deman Han, Rener Chen, Fangli Qiu, Jiashou Wu, Hujiang Jiang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, P. R. China. qizhongchou@tzc.edu.cn cre@tzc.edu.cn jhj@tzc.edu.cn.

PMID: 25600316
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09778e

Abstract

Organic solvent soluble gold nanoparticles based on pillar[5]arenes were prepared for the first time. They can reversibly aggregate and disassemble based on photo[4+4] cycloaddition of anthracene and can be used as recyclable catalysts.