Two organoboron based fluorophores pyrazabole and BODIPY have been designed and synthesized by the Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction and successfully employed for fluoride and cyanide ion sensing. Pyrazabole acts as a fluorimetric sensor, whereas BODIPY acts as a fluorimetric as well as colorimetric sensor for fluoride and cyanide ions with ratiometric response. The photophysical...

Nematic liquid crystals are textured, anisotropic, viscoelastic materials. The remarkable rheological properties of viscoelastic materials are governed by the flow-induced evolution of molecular configuration. Analogues to liquid crystal flow processes occur in the supramolecular selfassembly processes of living biological tissues. A good understanding of the relationships between rheological p...

The interaction of the trinuclear mercury(II) complex [(o-C(6)F(4)Hg)(3)] (1) and pyrene leads to the formation of the 1:1 adduct 1.pyrene. The crystal structure of this adduct reveals the existence of supramolecular stacks in which molecules of 1 and molecules of pyrene alternate along the infinite chains. Steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence measurements indicate the occurrence of...

The title mol-ecule, C36H27N3O9, adopts an almost symmetric conformation in which the mean planes of the phthalimido units are inclined at dihedral angles of 81.1 (1), 85.3 (1) and 86.3 (1)° with respect to the plane of the central aromatic ring. The O atoms are involved in intra- and inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonding. The crystal structure also features π-π arene inter-actions [minimum ri...

The title compound, C17H13ClO6, is an asymmetric alicyclic dianhydride containing a chloro-methyl-substituted tetra-hydro-naphthalene moiety. The cyclo-hexene ring in the tetra-hydro-naphthalene moiety exhibits an envelope conformation with the tertiary C atom as the flap The dihedral angle between the two anhydride rings is 79.96 (6)°, while those between the benzene ring and the non-fused and...

In order to have access to chiral gels, a series of salts derived from (1R,3S)-(+)-camphoric acid and various secondary amines were prepared based on supramolecular synthon rationale. Out of seven salts prepared, two showed moderate gelation abilities. The gels were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry, table top rheology, scanning electron microscopy, single crystal and powder X-...

Three N-substituted 5-chlorosalicylamides (4-chlorophenyl, 2a; benzyl, 2b; phenethyl 2c) differing in the length of the 'linker' between the benzene ring and the amide moiety were prepared in order to compare their supramolecular architecture. The intramolecular NH··O(H) hydrogen bond and the intermolecular C=O··H–O hydrogen bond were found in the crystal structure of 2a and 2c thus forming an ...

An easy access to a library of simple organic salts derived from tert-butoxycarbonyl (Boc)-protected L-amino acids and two secondary amines (dicyclohexyl- and dibenzyl amine) are synthesized following a supramolecular synthon rationale to generate a new series of low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs). Out of the 12 salts that we prepared, the nitrobenzene gel of dicyclohexylammonium Boc-glycina...

Co-crystals of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid and 2,3,5,6-tetramethylpyrazine (2 : 1) exhibit the first supramolecular synthon polymorphism in a co-crystal; metastable anti-hierarchic polymorph I converts to stable hierarchic form II.

Three discrete supramolecular self-assembled arsenic(iii) complexes including an unusual S(4)-symmetric tetranuclear [As(4)L(2)Cl(4)] metallacyclophane and two diastereomeric cis/trans-[As(2)LCl(2)] metallacycle intermediates co-crystallize within a single crystal lattice.