Translation of the assembling trajectory by preorganisation: a study of the magnetic properties of 1D polymeric unpaired electrons immobilised on a discrete nanoscopic scaffold†
Abstract
A nitronyl nitroxide (NN)-appended hexabenzocoronene (HBCNN), when allowed to coassemble with bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)cobalt(II), forms a coaxial nanotubular architecture featuring NN–Co(II) coordinated copolymer chains immobilised on the outer and inner nanotube surfaces. Upon lowering the temperature, this nanotube has enhanced magnetic susceptibility below 10 K.