Chiral water-soluble perylenediimides

Schmidt C, Boettcher C, Hirsch A (2009)


Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2009

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Original Authors: Schmidt C.D., Böttcher C., Hirsch A.

Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag

Pages Range: 5337-5349

Journal Issue: 31

DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200900777

Abstract

For the first time the synthesis of covalently linked very water-soluble chiral perylenediimides (PDIs) is presented. The PDIs carry the amino acids alanine or lysine as imide substituents, respectively, which are coupled to Newkometype dendrimers acting as hydrophilic groups. The tert-butylprotected precursors 5 as well as its water-soluble free acid compounds 6 were investigated by absorption, fluorescence and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. Except for the sterically most crowded 2 generation alanine compounds 5f and 6f all chiral dyes show bisignate CD effects which indicate helical aggregation. The 1 generation alanine compound 6b shows the greatest CD effects in buffer solution and its aggregation behaviour was also directly proven by the use of cryogenic transmission electron microscopy. Furthermore, the formation of chiral superstructures of 6b was found to be pH- and concentration-dependent. © 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

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APA:

Schmidt, C., Boettcher, C., & Hirsch, A. (2009). Chiral water-soluble perylenediimides. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 31, 5337-5349. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.200900777

MLA:

Schmidt, Cordula, Christoph Boettcher, and Andreas Hirsch. "Chiral water-soluble perylenediimides." European Journal of Organic Chemistry 31 (2009): 5337-5349.

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