Abstract
A series of rod-shaped polyoxometalates (POMs) [Bu4 N]7 [Mo6 O18 NC(CH2 O)3 MnMo6 O18 (OCH2 )3 CNMo6 O18 ] and [Bu4 N]7 [ArNMo6 O17 NC(CH2 O)3 MnMo6 O18 (OCH2 )3 CNMo6 O17 NAr] (Ar=2,6-dimethylphenyl, naphthyl and 1-methylnaphthyl) were chosen to study the effects of cation-π interaction on macroionic self-assembly. Diffusion ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) techniques show that the binding affinity between the POMs and Zn2+ ions is enhanced significantly after grafting aromatic groups onto the clusters, leading to the effective replacement of tetrabutylammonium counterions (TBAs) upon the addition of ZnCl2 . The incorporation of aromatic groups results in the significant contribution of cation-π interaction to the self-assembly, as confirmed by the opposite trend of assembly size vs. ionic strength when compared with those without aromatic groups. The small difference between two aromatic groups toward the Zn2+ ions is amplified after combining with the clusters, which consequently triggers the self-recognition behavior between two highly similar macroanions.
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