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Acyclic oligopyrroles as building blocks of supramolecular assemblies

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The supramolecular chemistry of acyclic oligopyrrole derivatives mainly reported by the author’s group in the last four years has been summarized in this review. The author has demonstrated the “first step” to construct the new materials and concepts based on the new molecular systems consisting of pyrrole rings, which form the complexes, assemblies, and organized structures, by using noncovalent interactions such as metal coordination, hydrogen bonding, and π–π interaction. Acyclic π-conjugated oligopyrroles have exhibited not only host–guest binding behaviors in solutions but also the formation of, for example, (i) metal coordination polymers to give emissive colloidal spheres, (ii) solid-state assemblies of acyclic π-conjugated anion receptors and their anion complexes, (iii) anion-responsive supramolecular gels from the receptors with aliphatic chains, and (iv) solvent-assisted organized structures like vesicles derived from amphiphilic anion receptors.

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The author thanks the organizing committee of Host-Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry Society, Japan for giving him the HGCS Japan Award of Excellence 2008 and the opportunity of writing this review. This work was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (No. 17750137, 19750122) and Scientific Research in a Priority Area “Super-Hierarchical Structures” (No. 18039038, 19022036) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Izumi Science and Technology Foundation, Iketani Science Technology Foundation, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Fund, Kumagai Foundation for Science and Technology, Nissan Science Foundation, Saneyoshi Scholarship Foundation, the Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan, Shorai Foundation for Science and Technology, and the Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, the “Academic Frontier” Project for Private Universities, namely the matching fund subsidy from the MEXT, 2003–2007, and the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO) project, 2008–2013. The author thanks Prof. Atsuhiro Osuka, Dr. Soji Shimizu (Tohoku University), Dr. Shigeki Mori (Tokyo University), Mr. Yasuhide Inokuma, and Mr. Shohei Saito, Kyoto University, for the X-ray analyses, Dr. Takashi Nakanishi, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, for various measurements of organized structures, Prof. Myongsoo Lee and Ms. Eunji Lee, Yonsei University, for cryo-TEM measurements, Prof. Hitoshi Tamiaki, Ritsumeikan University, for helpful discussions, and all the group members.

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Maeda, H. Acyclic oligopyrroles as building blocks of supramolecular assemblies. J Incl Phenom Macrocycl Chem 64, 193–214 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10847-009-9568-z

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