Dipole–dipole interaction driven self-assembly of merocyanine dyes: from dimers to nanoscale objects and supramolecular materials

F Würthner - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
… -assembly of merocyanine dyes during the … supramolecular polymers and nanostructured
materials. The reason for the usefulness of merocyanine dyes for the design of supramolecular

Supramolecular polymerization and gel formation of bis (merocyanine) dyes driven by dipolar aggregation

S Yao, U Beginn, T Gress, M Lysetska… - Journal of the …, 2004 - ACS Publications
… Recently, in the course of our studies on highly dipolar merocyanine dyes (eg, 1 and 2)
for nonlinear optical and photorefractive applications, 25 we noticed the formation of tightly …

Cooperative Supramolecular Polymerization: Comparison of Different Models Applied on the Self‐Assembly of Bis (merocyanine) Dyes

G Fernández, M Stolte, V Stepanenko… - … –A European Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… More than a decade ago our group discovered that merocyanine dyes form centrosymmetric
… as extended supramolecular polymers13 based on bis(merocyanine) dyes.14 All of those …

J‐aggregates: from serendipitous discovery to supramolecular engineering of functional dye materials

F Würthner, TE Kaiser… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… ) created by using supramolecular construction principles, and … the supramolecular,
photochemistry, and materials science … An example of a merocyanine dye 15 (a neutrocyanine) is …

Growth of Merocyanine Dye J‐Aggregate Nanosheets by Living Supramolecular Polymerization

L Kleine‐Kleffmann, A Schulz… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… arrangement for dipolar merocyanine (MC) dyes whose aggregation … our results for an
amphiphilic MC dye bearing alkyl and oligo(… of two supramolecular polymorphs for this MC dye, a …

Hydrogen-bond-directed formation of supramolecular polymers incorporating head-to-tail oriented dipolar merocyanine dyes

R Schmidt, M Stolte, M Grüne, F Würthner - Macromolecules, 2011 - ACS Publications
… of the dipolar dyes. Therefore, we have constructed the self-complementary merocyanine
dye 1 that consists of a Hamilton receptor and a merocyanine chromophore bearing a …

Dye-assisted structural modulation of hydrogen-bonded binary supramolecular polymers

S Yagai, M Higashi, T Karatsu… - Chemistry of materials, 2005 - ACS Publications
… of secondary structures in the supramolecular polymers. Thus, stronger and … supramolecular
polymers can be indeed induced by the use of barbiturate-type dipolar merocyanine dyes

Dimerization of merocyanine dyes. Structural and energetic characterization of dipolar dye aggregates and implications for nonlinear optical materials

F Würthner, S Yao, T Debaerdemaeker… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
… Aggregation of polar merocyanine dyes has been identified as an important problem in the
… of organic materials for photonic applications. In this work, a series of merocyanine dyes is …

Supramolecular Structures of J-Aggregates of Carbocyanine Dyes in Solution

H Von Berlepsch, C Böttcher, A Ouart… - The Journal of …, 2000 - ACS Publications
… One of the best-known molecular assemblies of the second kind are formed by certain
cyanine and merocyanine dyes. They have been named Jelley (J-) or Scheibe aggregates, in …

Diversification of self-organized architectures in supramolecular dye assemblies

S Yagai, T Kinoshita, M Higashi… - Journal of the …, 2007 - ACS Publications
… , oligo(p-phenylenevinylene), merocyanine assemblies, and even their coassemblies have
… reported supramolecular polymers 13 formed from a barbituric acid merocyanine dyes such …