Stabilization of a Kinetically Favored Nanostructure: Surface ROMP of Self-Assembled Conductive Nanocoils from a Norbornene-Appended Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene
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Abstract
Newly designed norbornene-appended hexabenzocoronene 1 self-assembles, upon diffusion of an Et(2)O vapor into its CH(2)Cl(2) solution, to form either graphitic nanocoils or nanotubes, depending on the self-assembling conditions. The coiled assembly, selectively formed at 15 degrees C, is a kinetic intermediate for the tubular assembly and transforms into nanotubes on standing at 25 degrees C. However, post-ring-opening metathesis polymerization of the norbornene pendants of 1 enhances the thermal stability of the coiled assembly as well as the tubular one and disables a thermodynamic coil-to-tube transition. The polymerized nanocoils show an electroconductivity of 1 x 10(-)(4) S cm(-)(1) upon doping with I(2), while the nonpolymerized nanocoils are disrupted upon being doped.
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