Issue 29, 2015

Metal loading of lanthanidopolymers driven by positive cooperativity

Abstract

This work demonstrates how the thermodynamic loading of monodisperse polymeric single-stranded multi-tridentate receptors of variable lengths is controlled by the nature of the metallic carrier Ln(hfac)3 (Ln is La, Eu or Y, and hfac is hexafluoroacetylacetonate). Whereas the intrinsic affinity of the tridentate binding site is maximum for medium-sized Eu3+ and decreases for Y3+, the contraction of the hydrodynamic radius of the polymer upon metal loading induces positive allosteric cooperativity for the smaller cations. The origin of this behaviour is rationalized within the frame of intermetallic dipole–dipole interactions modulated by the solvation potential of dipolar solutes in dielectric materials. Positive cooperativity produces local high-density of metal ions along the ligand strands (metal clustering) with potential interest in energy migration and sensing processes.

Graphical abstract: Metal loading of lanthanidopolymers driven by positive cooperativity

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 May 2015
Accepted
22 Jun 2015
First published
22 Jun 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 13250-13260

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Metal loading of lanthanidopolymers driven by positive cooperativity

T. N. Y. Hoang, Z. Wang, L. Babel, H. Nozary, M. Borkovec, I. Szilagyi and C. Piguet, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 13250 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT01842K

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