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Chiral Alignment of OPV Chromophores: Exploitation of the Ureidophthalimide-Based Foldamer

Journal of the American Chemical Society2006Vol. 128(50), pp. 16113–16121

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Renatus W. Sinkeldam, Freek J. M. Hoeben, Maarten J. Pouderoijen, Inge De Cat, Jian Zhang, Shuhei Furukawa, Steven De Feyter, Vekemans, E. W. Meijer

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The ability of foldamers to adopt a secondary structure in solution has been exploited to organize peripheral functionality. Our previously reported poly(ureidophthalimide) foldamer proved to be an excellent scaffold for the chiral organization of peripherally positioned oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) (OPV) chromophores. Facile high-yielding synthesis gave access to the required OPV-decorated building blocks. A condensation polymerization provided polymers of sufficient length to allow construction of a helical architecture comprising several turns. Short and long chains were separated by chromatography. Circular dichroism studies in THF of the longer chains indicate the presence of helically arranged OPVs. However, such an effect is not observed in CHCl3. Remarkable are the measurements of the OPV foldamers in heptane. A bisignate Cotton effect is observed in heptane of a sample with a THF history. No Cotton effect is observed in heptane of a sample with a CHCl3 history. In this example of supramolecular synthesis, the solvent dictates the expression of supramolecular chirality in a secondary structure. The short-chain oligomeric fractions that are unable to create a full turn revealed on scanning tunneling microscopy analysis the presence of circular architectures at the graphite/1-phenyloctane interface. This is in full agreement with the proposed conformation of the decorated foldamers.

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