Miguel García-Iglesias, Tomas Torres and David González-Rodríguez
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 9446-9449
DOI:
10.1039/C6CC04152C,
Communication
Octameric near-IR dye nanoclusters are produced by complexation of potassium cations with a phthalocyanine–guanosine conjugate. The combination of hydrogen-bonding, K+ coordination, π–π stacking and steric interactions between the chiral side groups is responsible for defining a specific helical chromophore arrangement in the clusters, which display high stability and maintain their supramolecular identity onto substrates.
