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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages 1133-1139Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.2812
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [25000005, 15H05487, JP17H05394]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- ImPACT Program of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25000005, 15H05487] Funding Source: KAKEN
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One of the enticing characteristics of supramolecular polymers is their thermodynamic reversibility, which is attractive, in particular, for stimuli-responsive applications. These polymers usually disassemble upon heating, but here we report a supramolecular polymerization that occurs upon heating as well as cooling. This behaviour arises from the use of a metalloporphyrin-based tailored monomer bearing eight amide-containing side chains, which assembles into a highly thermostable one-dimensional polymer through pi-stacking and multivalent hydrogen-bonding interactions, and a scavenger, 1-hexanol, in a dodecane-based solvent. At around 50 degrees C, the scavenger locks the monomer into a non-polymerizable form through competing hydrogen bonding. On cooling, the scavenger preferentially self-aggregates, unlocking the monomer for polymerization. Heating also results in unlocking the monomer for polymerization, by disrupting the dipole and hydrogen-bonding interactions with the scavenger. Analogous to 'upper and lower critical solution temperature phenomena' for covalently bonded polymers, such a thermally bisignate feature may lead to supramolecular polymers with tailored complex thermoresponsive properties.
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