Kinetic Delay in Cooperative Supramolecular Polymerization by Redefining the Trade‐Off Relationship between H‐Bonds and Van der Waals/π–π Stacking Interactions
William T. Gallonde, Corentin Poidevin, Félix Houard, Elsa Caytan, Vincent Dorcet, Arnaud Fihey, Kévin Bernot, Stéphane Rigaut, Olivier Galangau
Abstract
We here present how rebalancing the interplay between H-bonds and dispersive forces (Van der Waals/π-π stacking) may induce or not the generation of kinetic metastable states. In particular, we show that extending the aromatic content and favouring the interchain VdW interactions causes a delay into the cooperative supramolecular polymerization of a new family of toluene bis-amide derivatives by trapping the metastable inactive state.
Topics & Concepts
Stackingvan der Waals forceSupramolecular chemistryMetastabilityPolymerizationKinetic energyChemistryAmideChemical physicsTolueneTrappingCrystallographyPolymerMoleculeCrystal structureOrganic chemistryPhysicsClassical mechanicsBiologyEcologySupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsPolydiacetylene-based materials and applicationsLuminescence and Fluorescent Materials