Issue 13, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Visible light-responsive micelles formed from dialkoxyanthracene-containing block copolymers†

Qiang Yan,a   Jun Hu,b   Rong Zhou,c   Yong Ju,b   Yingwu Yina  and  Jinying Yuan*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
E-mail: yuanjy@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
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b Key Lab of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

c Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA

Abstract

A class of dialkoxyanthracene-containing diblock copolymers is synthesized which possesses visible light-responsivity. These copolymers can self-assemble into a micellar structure in water. Green visible light (540 nm) is able to scissor these anthracene species and cleave the diblock copolymer into two fragments, inducing disassembly of the self-assembled micelles.

Graphical abstract: Visible light-responsive micelles formed from dialkoxyanthracene-containing block copolymers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC16921E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Nov 2011
Accepted
16 Dec 2011
First published
20 Dec 2011

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 1913-1915

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Visible light-responsive micelles formed from dialkoxyanthracene-containing block copolymers

Q. Yan, J. Hu, R. Zhou, Y. Ju, Y. Yin and J. Yuan, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 1913 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC16921E

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