Nanofibers Self-Assembled from Lipophilic Bridging Ligands and Metal Ions

Nanofibers Self-Assembled from Lipophilic Bridging Ligands and Metal Ions 

4- triazole, however it resulted in deterioration of the complex at the air-water interface [101]. To develop soluble triazole complexes, we have designed a lipophilic triazole ligand 22 (Ci20C3Trz) and synthesized their Fe and Co complexes (Fig. 15) [75,76]. When Co (22)3Cl2 is dissolved in chloroform, a blue gel-like phase is formed at room temperature. Networks of nanofibers with widths of 5-30 run are observed in atomic force microscopy. The blue color is characteristic to the tetrahedral cobalt(ll) 

Ti(P)). Interestingly, the blue gel-like phase turns into a pale 

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