Mechanically interlocked polymers based on rotaxanes

L Chen, X Sheng, G Li, F Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The nature of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) has continued to encourage
researchers to design and construct a variety of high-performance materials. Introducing …

Noncovalently bound and mechanically interlocked systems using pillar [n] arenes

K Kato, S Fa, S Ohtani, T Shi, AM Brouwer… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Pillar [n] arenes are pillar-shaped macrocyclic compounds owing to the methylene bridges
linking the para-positions of the units. Owing to their unique pillar-shaped structures, these …

Artificial Light‐Harvesting Systems Based on AIEgen‐branched Rotaxane Dendrimers for Efficient Photocatalysis

WJ Li, XQ Wang, DY Zhang, YX Hu, WT Xu… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aiming at the construction of novel platform for efficient light harvesting, the precise
synthesis of a new family of AIEgen‐branched rotaxane dendrimers was successful realized …

AIE‐Active Chiral [3] Rotaxanes with Switchable Circularly Polarized Luminescence

WJ Li, Q Gu, XQ Wang, DY Zhang, YT Wang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The construction of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) switches with multiple
switchable emission states and high dissymmetry factors (glum) has attracted increasing …

Photoresponsive rotaxane-branched dendrimers: from nanoscale dimension modulation to macroscopic soft actuators

WJ Li, WT Xu, XQ Wang, Y Jiang, Y Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aiming at the construction of novel soft actuators through the amplified motions of molecular
machines at the nanoscale, the design and synthesis of a new family of photoresponsive …

Rotaxane dendrimers: alliance between giants

XQ Wang, WJ Li, W Wang, HB Yang - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus During recent decades, the blossoming of the field of mechanically interlocked
molecules (MIMs), ie, molecules containing mechanical or topological bonds such as …

Dendrimers: exploring their wide structural variety and applications

M Pérez-Ferreiro, A M. Abelairas, A Criado, IJ Gómez… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dendrimers constitute a distinctive category of synthetic materials that bear resemblance to
proteins in various aspects, such as discrete structural organization, globular morphology …

Dual Stimuli‐Responsive [2] Rotaxanes with Tunable Vibration‐Induced Emission and Switchable Circularly Polarized Luminescence

WT Xu, X Li, P Wu, WJ Li, Y Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aiming at the construction of novel stimuli‐responsive fluorescent system with precisely
tunable emissions, the typical 9, 14‐diphenyl‐9, 14‐dihydrodibenzo [a, c] phenazine …

Rotaxane-branched dendrimers with enhanced photosensitization

WJ Li, Z Hu, L Xu, XQ Wang, W Wang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
During the past few decades, fabrication of functional rotaxane-branched dendrimers has
become one of the most attractive yet challenging topics within supramolecular chemistry …

Two‐dimensional chiral polyrotaxane monolayer with emergent and steerable circularly polarized luminescence

L Hu, X Zhu, C Yang, M Liu - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we propose a mechanically interlocked strategy to achieve a 2D chiral polyrotaxane
(2D CPR) monolayer with emergent and steerable CPL activity by utilizing β‐cyclodextrin as …