Assembling Pentatopic Terpyridine Ligands with Three Types of Coordination Moieties into a Giant Supramolecular Hexagonal Prism: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Study

Heng Wang, Chung Hao Liu, Kun Wang, Minghui Wang, Hao Yu, Sneha Kandapal, Robert Brzozowski, Bingqian Xu, Ming Wang, Shuai Lu, Xin Qi Hao, Prahathees Eswara, Mu Ping Nieh, Jianfeng Cai, Xiaopeng Li

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Abstract

Three dimensional (3D) supramolecules with giant cavities are attractive due to their wide range of applications. Herein, we used pentatopic terpyridine ligands with three types of coordination moieties to assemble two giant supramolecular hexagonal prisms with a molecular weight up to 42 »608 and 43 »569 Da, respectively. Within the prisms, two double-rimmed Kandinsky Circles serve as the base surfaces as well as the templates for assisting the self-sorting during the self-assembly. Additionally, hierarchical self-assembly of these supramolecular prisms into tubular-like nanostructures was fully studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Finally, these supramolecular prisms show good antimicrobial activities against Gram-positive pathogen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16108-16116
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume141
Issue number40
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 9 2019

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