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RIM is fundamental for the high emission of AIEgens in concentrated solution/solid-state. Confinement of such an AIEgen (SG) in the confined nanospace of a Pd4 molecular pocket caused RIM leading to high emission even in a dilute solution.

Restriction of intramolecular motion (RIM) is fundamental for the high emission of aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-active molecules in aggregates or the solid-state. However, they are weakly emissive in dilute solution, which limits their application in dilute solutions. A Pd

Fullerene extracts obtained from fullerene soot lack their real application due to their poor solubility in common solvents and difficulty in purification. Encapsulation of these extracts in a suitable host is an important approach to address these issues. We present a new Pd6 barrel (1), which is composed of three 1,4-dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole panels, clipped through six cis-PdII acceptors. Large open windows and cavity make it an efficient host for a large guest. Favorable interactions between the ligand and fullerene (C60 and C70 ) allows the barrel to encapsulate fullerene efficiently. Thorough investigation reveals that barrel 1 has a stronger binding affinity towards C70 over C60 , resulting in the predominant extraction of C70 from a mixture of the two. Finally, the fullerene encapsulated barrels C60 ⊂1 and C70 ⊂1 were found to be efficient for visible-light-induced singlet oxygen generation. Such preferential binding of C70 and photosensitizing ability of C60 ⊂1 and C70 ⊂1 are noteworthy.

Designing supramolecular architectures with uncommon geometries embedded with functional building units is of immense importance in contemporary research. In this report, we present a new water-soluble Pd12L6 supramolecular coordination nanocage (1) that was synthesized via self-assembly of a tetradentate donor (L) with ditopic acceptor cis-[(en)Pd(NO3)2] [en = ethylenediamine]. Self-assembly of a tetratopic donor with a cis-blocked 90° acceptor commonly produces tri/tetra- or hexagonal barrel-type structures. However, the resulting cage 1 has an uncommon geometry consisting of two triangular cupolas conjoined through an irregular common hexagonal base. Incorporation of the benzothiadiazole unit in the structure helped in the photogeneration of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in water. Many nanomaterials have shown to have the ability to mimic the catalytic activity of natural enzymes (nanozymes). Majority of such nanozymes are water insoluble metal/metal-oxide nanoparticles or extended metal organic frameworks (MOFs)/metal-carbon composites, etc. The present water-soluble Pd12 nanocage 1 has shown excellent oxidase-like activity upon irradiation with white light. The enzymatic activity of 1 is photoregulated which offers other obvious advantages, such as external control of enzymatic activity and noninvasiveness. The oxidase-like activity and exogenous ROS generation have been further exploited in photocatalytic antibacterial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterial strain.

Development of photosensitizer-based self-assembled metallosupramolecular architectures with important applications is an emerging trend in supramolecular chemistry. In this study, we report a new benzothiadiazole-based tetra-pyridyl ligand (L), which upon self-assembly with a cis-block 90° Pt(II) acceptor generated an unprecedented tetrafacial Pt(II)8 photoactive tubular molecular cage (PMB1). This cage could bring an extraordinary photosensitizer, benzothiadiazole, into water which is otherwise insoluble. PMB1 is fluorescent and shows photogeneration of singlet oxygen in an aqueous medium. These features make PMB1 a potent antimicrobial agent in water in both the presence and absence of light. In comparison to its building blocks and water-soluble alkylated charged ligand ([LMe4][4NO3]), the cage shows much enhanced photoinduced antibacterial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a representative of Gram-positive bacteria and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) as a representative of Gram-negative bacteria. PMB1 is successful at inactivating the bacterial growth via both photoactivation of molecular oxygen and membrane depolarization mechanisms, thus proving to be a dual warhead. Inactivation of bacteria in water using such a supramolecular architecture is noteworthy and can shed light on the generation of new antimicrobial supramolecular systems.

Developing artificial light-harvesting scaffolds with a cascade energy transfer process is significant for better understanding of photosynthesis. Here, we report [3+3] self-assembled Pt

A new triphenylamine-based tetraimidazolium salt

The normal mode method is widely used in ocean acoustic propagation. Usually, finite difference and finite element methods are used in its solution. Recently, a method has been proposed for heterogeneous layered waveguides where the depth eigenproblem is solved using the classical Rayleigh–Ritz approximation. The method has high accuracy for low to high frequency problems. However, the matrices that appear in the eigenvalue problem for radial wavenumbers require numerical integration of the matrix elements since the sound speed and density profiles are numerically defined. In this paper, a technique is proposed to reduce the computational cost of the Rayleigh–Ritz method by expanding the sound speed profile in a Fourier series using nonlinear least square fit so that the integrals of the matrix elements can be computed in closed form. This technique is tested in a variety of problems and found to be sufficiently accurate in obtaining the radial wavenumbers as well as the transmission loss in a waveguide. The computational savings obtained by this approach is remarkable, the improvements being one or two orders of magnitude.

Control over the stimuli-responsive behavior of smart molecular systems can influence their capability to execute complex functionalities. Herein, we report the development of a suite of spiropyran-based multi-stimuli-responsive self-assembled platinum(II) macrocycles (5-7), rendering coordination-assisted enhanced photochromism relative to the corresponding ligands. 5 showed shrinking and swelling during photoreversal, while 6 and 7 are fast and fatigue-free supramolecular photoswitches. 6 turns out to be a better fatigue-resistant photoswitch and can retain an intact photoswitching ability of up to 20 reversible cycles. The switching behavior of the macrocycles can also be precisely controlled by tuning the pH of the medium. Our present strategy for the construction of rapid stimuli-responsive supramolecular architectures via coordination-driven self-assembly represents an efficient route for the development of smart molecular switches.

International audience; Light-harvesting is one of the key steps in photosynthesis, but developing artificial light-harvesting systems (LHSs) with high energy transfer efficiencies has been a challenging task. Here we report fluorescent hexagonal Pt(II) metallacycles as a new platform to fabricate artificial LHSs. The metallacycles (4 and 5) are easily accessible by coordination-driven self-assembly of a triphenylamine-based ditopic ligand 1 with di-platinum acceptors 2 and 3, respectively. They possess good fluorescence properties both in solution and in the solid state. Notably, the metallacycles show aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE) characteristics in a DMSO-H2O solvent system. In the presence of the fluorescent dye Eosin Y (ESY), the emission intensities of the metallacycles decrease but the emission intensity of ESY increases. The absorption spectrum of ESY and the emission spectra of the metallacycles show a considerable overlap, suggesting the possibility of energy transfer from the metallacycles to ESY, with an energy transfer efficiency as high as 65% in the 4a+ESY system. © 2019 American Chemical Society.

Development of photosensitizer-based self-assembled metallosupramolecular architectures with important applications is an emerging trend in supramolecular chemistry. In this study, we report a new benzothiadiazole-based tetra-pyridyl ligand (

A series of self-assembled functional Pt(II) molecular hexagons (M1-M3) is reported. Hexagons M1 and M2 were designed employing aggregation induced emissive and photochromic building blocks, respectively, while macrocycle M3 is a bifunctional, containing both the kinds of building units. Hexagons M1 and M3 were found to inherit the enhanced emission with aggregate formation which was explored using UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. The enhanced emission of macrocycle M3 compared to that of its building units was driven both by metal-ligand coordination and formation of nanoaggregates as evident from SEM, DLS and TEM analyses. Two of the macrocycles (M2 and M3) were also found to be photochromic due to the presence of spiropyran in the molecular backbone. Due to the virtue of protonation-deprotonation equilibrium of the spiropyran, these macrocycles (M2 and M3) showed reversible acidochromic behavior. Macrocycle M3 represents the first example of a self-assembled Pt(II) architecture which is multifunctional with aggregation-induced emission (AIE), photochromic, and acidochromic properties. This new generation macrocycle (M3) also showed coordination-driven enhanced emission and light-induced color change behavior compared to the starting building blocks. Our present approach of incorporating multiple functions into a single self-assembled structure with enhanced functionality compared to the starting building blocks via coordination self-assembly is noteworthy and has huge potential for the development of multifunctional materials.

Two new 1,4-dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole based aggregation induced emission (AIE)-inactive di- and tetra-imidazolium salts were employed with Ag(I) for the synthesis of a Ag–carbene bond directed metallacycle (1) and metallacage (2), respectively. Transmetalation of these complexes allowed their facile conversion to their respective Au(I)-metallacycle (3) and metallacage (4). The final assemblies exhibit linkage induced enhancement of fluorescence (LIEF). The free ligands are almost non-fluorescent (ΦF = 3.2, 3.4) in comparison to their metal–carbene counterparts (ΦF up to 32.0). Thus, without using any AIEgen, obtaining high emission efficiencies in complexes AgI–CNHC (1, 2) via linkage is a nice approach towards turn-on fluorescence.

Donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA) are new-generation photochromic compounds discovered recently. DASA exist normally in open form (blue/violet) and readily convert to cyclic (light yellow/colorless) zwitterionic form reversibly in the presence of green light in toluene/dioxane. In aqueous medium, the open form is not stable and converts to the cyclic zwitterionic form irreversibly. We report here a new self-assembled Pd

Donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA) are new-generation photochromic compounds discovered recently. DASA exist normally in open form (blue/violet) and readily convert to cyclic (light yellow/colorless) zwitterionic form reversibly in the presence of green light in toluene/dioxane. In aqueous medium, the open form is not stable and converts to the cyclic zwitterionic form irreversibly. We report here a new self-assembled Pd8 molecular vessel (MV) that can stabilize and store the open form of DASA even in aqueous medium. Reaction of the 90° acceptor cis-(tmeda)Pd(NO3)2 (M) [tmeda = N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethane-1,2-diamine] with a symmetric tetraimidazole donor (L, 3,3′,5,5′-tetra(1H-imidazol-1-yl)-1,1′-biphenyl) in a 2:1 molar ratio yielded a water-soluble [8+4] self-assembled M8L4 molecular barrel (MV). This barrel (MV) is found to be a potential molecular vessel to store and stabilize the open forms of DASA in aqueous medium over the more stable zwitterionic cyclic form, while in the absence of the barrel the same DASA exist in cyclic zwitterionic form in aqueous medium. The hydrophobic interaction between the cavity and the open form of DASA molecules benefits reaching an out-of-equilibrium or reverse equilibrium state in aqueous medium. The presence of excess MV could even drive the conversion of the stable cyclic form to the open form in aqueous medium. The host–guest complex is stable upon irradiating with green light. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first successful attempt to stabilize the open form of DASA molecules in aqueous medium and the first report on the fate of DASA in a confined space discrete molecular architecture. Furthermore, the molecular vessel has been utilized for catalytic Michael addition reactions of a series of nitrostyrene derivatives with 1,3-indandione in aqueous medium.

In a quest for effective synthetic precursors for the preparation of B-agostic complexes of ruthenium, we have shown that the reaction of [Cp?RuCl2]2 (Cp? = ?5-C5Me5) with [NaBt] or [NaBo] (Bt = dihydrobis(2-mercaptobenzthiazolyl)borate, Bo = dihydrobis(2-mercaptobenzoxazolyl)borate) led to the formation of B-agostic complexes [Cp?RuBH2L2], 1a,b (1a: L = 2-mercaptobenzthiazol, 1b: L = 2-mercaptobenzoxazol) and [Cp?RuBH3L], 2a,b (2a: L = 2-mercaptobenzthiazol, 2b: L = 2-mercaptobenzoxazol) in good yields. In parallel to the formation of 1a,b and 2a,b, this method also allowed the formation of ruthenium hydrotrisborate complexes [Cp?RuBYL3], 3a-c (3a: L = 2-mercaptobenzthiazol, Y = H, 3b: L = 2-mercaptobenzoxazol, Y = H, 3c: L = 2-mercaptobenzoxazol, Y = Cl). The key feature of complexes 3a-c is the coordination of one of the 2-mercaptobenzothiazole ligand that connects to the metal and the boron centre through a common sulfur atom. Upon heating, compounds 3a,b change into their corresponding S?N linkage isomers, in which the boron atom is bonded to three nitrogen atoms. The cyclic voltammetric studies on compounds 3a-c and 4a,b suggest that a deviation in coordination of the ligand change the oxidation potential of the metal centre. All the new compounds have been characterized in solution by 1H, 11B and 13C NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and the structural types of 3a-c and 4b were unequivocally established by crystallographic analysis. � 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.