Dendron-mediated self-assembly, disassembly, and self-organization of complex systems

BM Rosen, CJ Wilson, DA Wilson, M Peterca… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

Induced helical backbone conformations of self-organizable dendronized polymers

JG Rudick, V Percec - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
Control of function through the primary structure of a molecule presents a significant
challenge with valuable rewards for nanoscience. Dendritic building blocks encoded with …

An adaptable peptide-based porous material

J Rabone, YF Yue, SY Chong, KC Stylianou, J Bacsa… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Porous materials find widespread application in storage, separation, and catalytic
technologies. We report a crystalline porous solid with adaptable porosity, in which a simple …

Helical self-organizations and emerging functions in architectures, biological and synthetic macromolecules

V Percec, Q Xiao - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Helical architectures including artwork and monuments, such us the Trajan's column from
Rome, were constructed as early as in the year 113 while the assemblies and the self …

Liquid crystalline dendrimers

B Donnio, S Buathong, I Bury, D Guillon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the field of liquid crystalline
dendrimers. Such a fast development is, among other things, driven by the multiple …

Predicting the Structure of Supramolecular Dendrimers via the Analysis of Libraries of AB3 and Constitutional Isomeric AB2 Biphenylpropyl Ether Self-Assembling …

BM Rosen, DA Wilson, CJ Wilson… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of 4′-hydroxy-4-biphenylpropionic, 3′, 4′-dihydroxy-4-biphenylpropionic,
3′, 5′-dihydroxy-4-biphenylpropionic, and 3′, 4′, 5′-trihydroxy-4-biphenylpropionic …

Self-assembly of dendritic crowns into chiral supramolecular spheres

V Percec, MR Imam, M Peterca… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The synthesis and structural and retrostructural analysis of a library of dendronized
cyclotriveratrylene containing seven nonchiral and seven chiral self-assembling dendrons is …

Diffusion-controlled detection of trinitrotoluene: Interior nanoporous structure and low highest occupied molecular orbital level of building blocks enhance selectivity …

Y Che, DE Gross, H Huang, D Yang… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Development of simple, cost-effective, and sensitive fluorescence-based sensors for
explosives implies broad applications in homeland security, military operations, and …

[HTML][HTML] Discotic liquid crystals 45 years later. Dendronized discs and crowns increase liquid crystal complexity to columnar from spheres, cubic Frank-Kasper, liquid …

V Percec, D Sahoo - Giant, 2022 - Elsevier
In 1977 Chandrasekhar laboratory reported the first examples of a new class of thermotropic
liquid crystals self-organized from planar disc-like molecules substituted with alkyl groups. X …

Helical architectures from self-assembly of chiral polymers and block copolymers

RM Ho, YW Chiang, SC Lin, CK Chen - Progress in polymer science, 2011 - Elsevier
Self-assembly is a spontaneous association of molecules under equilibrium conditions into
stable, well-defined aggregates by secondary interactions (ie, non-covalent forces). In 1985 …