Département de chimie moléculaire

We report the properties of a shape-persistent tetra-terpyridine ligand whose coordination to transition metal ions guides its three-dimensional self-assembly in two steps: at first, nanoscale objects form, which with time, self-assemble into micrometer structures. This work highlights the potential for control of the mol. self-assembly of mols. on the nanoscale, and the successive self-assembly of the formed supramol. nanosystems to yield mesoscopic objects. [on SciFinder(R)]