N‐Substituted Acridinium as a Multi‐Responsive Recognition Unit in Supramolecular Chemistry
Henri‐Pierre Jacquot de Rouville, Johnny Hu, Valérie Heitz
Abstract
The N-substituted acridinium motif is an electron-deficient unit with appealing multi-responsive properties which have been exploited in the field of supramolecular chemistry. This building block reversibly alters its shape, with its chemical and optical properties in response to a chemical or redox signal. In this Review, we discuss selected examples where the switchable properties of 9-aryl-N-methyl-acridinium lead to actuators, multi-input and multi-output systems, host or guest systems, and to interlocked systems with controllable motion.
Topics & Concepts
Supramolecular chemistryChemistryRedoxMolecular recognitionCombinatorial chemistryMoleculeBlock (permutation group theory)NanotechnologyMaterials scienceOrganic chemistryGeometryMathematicsMolecular Sensors and Ion DetectionSupramolecular Chemistry and ComplexesLuminescence and Fluorescent Materials