Issue 3, 2014

An organogelator design without solubilizing side chains by backbone contortion of a perylene bisimide pigment

Abstract

Here we report a perylene bisimide (PBI) based gelator molecule that contains neither a long alkyl chain nor any other solubilizing group which are considered to be essential moieties of organogelators. Instead, the solubility of the newly designed PBI gelator 4a is imparted by a contorted aromatic core. Its self-assembly into highly fluorescent one-dimensional nanostructures is directed by H-bonding, affording extremely low critical gelation concentrations (CGCs) below 0.1 wt%.

Graphical abstract: An organogelator design without solubilizing side chains by backbone contortion of a perylene bisimide pigment

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Dec 2013
Accepted
31 Jan 2014
First published
17 Feb 2014

Mater. Horiz., 2014,1, 355-359

An organogelator design without solubilizing side chains by backbone contortion of a perylene bisimide pigment

Z. Xie, V. Stepanenko, B. Fimmel and F. Würthner, Mater. Horiz., 2014, 1, 355 DOI: 10.1039/C3MH00159H

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