The potential applications of tubular structures as sensors, templates for directed reactions, and ion-ion or small molecule transport systems have attracted great attention. Currently, many tubular molecules are designed for self-assembly, held together by hydrogen bonds, p-p interactions or van der Waals contacts. In our group we have been investigating a directed and controlled approach for the synthesis of nano-tubes held together via covalent bonds. Our basic idea is to design a polymerizable diacetylene macrocycle that would self assemble in accordance with the parameters needed for a topochemical polymerization. Herein, we will present our newly designed macrocyclic systems and our first synthetic nanotube structure.

Design, synthesis, and topochemical polymerization of diacetylene macrocyclic systems

240th National Meeting (2010)

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