Our long-standing research interest has been focused on the macrocyclic family of resorcinarenes, namely the crown ether and podand derivatives of tetramethoxy resorcinarene, which can be used as versatile building blocks in the construction of self-assembled supramolecular architectures through non-covalent interactions.1-2 In our previous work, we have shown the resorcinarene crown ether derivatives to be ideal in complexing metal cations (alkali metal, silver and ammonium cations) within the resorcinarene cavity, and thus enabling variety of metal cation containing supramolecular assemblies from capsules to nanorods.1,3-5 Also, the podand derivatives of tetramethoxy resorcinarene have been shown to build interesting supramolecular network structures, which can be controlled by the functionality of the podand appendices.2 1. Salorinne, K.; Nissinen, M. Org. Lett. 2006 , 8, 54732. Salorinne, K.; Nauha, E.; Nissinen, M.; Ropponen, J. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013 , 15913. Salorinne, K.; Nissinen, M. Tetrahedron 2008 , 64, 17984. Salorinne, K.; Tero, T. R.; Riikonen, K.; Nissinen, M. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2009 , 7, 42115. Salorinne, K.; Lopez-Acevedo, O.; Nauha, E.; H�kkinen, H.; Nissinen, M. CrystEngComm 2012 , 14, 347

Self-assembled supramolecular nanostructures composed of tetramethoxy resorcinarene derivatives and their metal complexes

246th National Meeting (2013)

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