Templates self-assembly

Sauvage, J. P. and Hosseine, M. W., Eds., Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry, Volume 9 Templating, Self-Assembly, and Self-Organization, Pergamon, Oxford, 1999. 

Pouget E, Dujardin E, Cavalier A et al (2007) Hierarchical architectures by synergy between dynamical template self- assembly and biomineralization. Nat Mater 6 434-439... 

For a review, see G Decher. In J-P Sauvage, MW Hosseini, eds. Templating, Self-Assembly and Self-Organization. Vol 9. Oxford Pergamon Press, 1996, pp 507-528. 

One of the most successful approaches to the synthesis of metalla-supramolecular systems has been by templated self-assembly processes. Most of the templating agents used by synthetic chemists are either cationic or neutral species. Anions, on the other hand, have only fairly recently been successfully utilized as templates. The new metalla-macrocycles [Pd2Ni2(atu)4(PPh3)4X]3+ (atu = deprotonated amidinothiourea, X = C1, Br, I) have been prepared using anion templated syntheses. Only in the presence of each of these three halides are the metalla-macrocycles... 

The formation of bottom-up block copolymer patterns within or on top-down substrate patterns is the basis for so-called templated self-assembly processes, in which long-range order and orientation of microdomain patterns can be imposed by a template or guide . These top-down templates can take a variety of forms including periodic thickness profiles and chemically patterned surfaces. 

Wei G, Wang L, Liu Z, Song Y, Sun L, Yang T, Li Z (2005) DNA-network-templated self-assembly of silver nanoparticles and their application in surface-enhanced raman scattering. J Phys Chem B 109 23941-23947... 

Yan H, Park SH, Finkelstein G, Reif JH, LaBean TH (2003).DNA-templated self-assembly of protein arrays and highly conductive nanowires. Science 301 1882-1884. 

Zehner RW, Sita LR. Electroless deposition of nanoscale copper patterns via microphase-separated diblock copolymer templated self-assembly. Langmuir 1999 15 6139-6141. 

Figure 10.8 Metal template self-assembly of artificial recognition sites.

A last notable example is represented by a templated self-assembly of metallic nanoparticles by using DNA as a scaffold. This leads to the formation of extended, close-packed, ligand-stabilized metal nanoparticle structures, including long chains of nanoparticles [158]. 

Hamilton, A. D., Linton, B., Formation of artificial receptors by metal-templated self-assembly. Chem. S t Y 1997. 97,1669-1680. 

Scheme 5.4 Anion templated self-assembly of gold(I) phosphine macrocycles.34...

Figure 4. Anion-templated self-assembly ofpseudorotaxanes. Recognition of the anion by macrocycle results in the formation of an interpenetrated structure.

T. Kunitake, Templating, self-assembly, and self-organization, in Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry, edited by J. L. Atwood, J. E. D. Davies, D. D. Macnicol, F. Vogtle, J.-M. Lehn (series editor), J.-P. Sauvage and M. W. Hosseini (volume editors) (Pergamon, Elsevier Science Ltd. 1996), Vol. IX, p. 351. 

M. Cai et al., Binding cesium ions with nucleosides Templated self-assembly of isoguanosine pentamers. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 39, 1283-1285 (2000)... 

Figure 3.12 Hierarchical organization in the templated self-assembly of the G-quartets.

Scheme 10.5 Hydrogen bond-templated self-assembly of [2]catenanes reported by both Vogtle and coworkers and Hunter and coworkers. 

Decher G (1996). In Sauvage J-P, Hosseini MW (eds) Templating, self-assembly and selforganisation, vol 9. Pergamon, Oxford, pp 507-528... 

Fig. 5 Anion-templated self-assembly of two coordination squares and a pentagon, and their dynamic interconversion...

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