Assembling Pentatopic Terpyridine Ligands with Three Types of Coordination Moieties into a Giant Supramolecular Hexagonal Prism: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Study
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b08484
Abstract
Three dimensional (3D) supramolecules with giant cavities are attractive due to their wide range of applications. Herein, we used pentatopic terpyridine ligands with three types of coordination moieties to assemble two giant supramolecular hexagonal prisms with a molecular weight up to 42 608 and 43 569 Da, respectively. Within the prisms, two double-rimmed Kandinsky Circles serve as the base surfaces as well as the templates for assisting the self-sorting during the self-assembly. Additionally, hierarchical self-assembly of these supramolecular prisms into tubular-like nanostructures was fully studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Finally, these supramolecular prisms show good antimicrobial activities against Gram-positive pathogen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis).
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 141, issue 40, p. 16108-16116
Scholar Commons Citation
Wang, Heng; Liu, Chung-Hao; Wang, Kun; Wang, Minghui; Yu, Hao; Kandapal, Sneha; Brzozowski, Robert; Xu, Bingqian; Wang, Ming; Lu, Shuai; Hao, Xin-Qi; Eswara, Prahathees J.; Nieh, Mu-Ping; Cai, Jianfeng; and Li, Xiaopeng, "Assembling Pentatopic Terpyridine Ligands with Three Types of Coordination Moieties into a Giant Supramolecular Hexagonal Prism: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Study" (2019). Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications. 84.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bcm_facpub/84
