Formation of reactive aerogels and their reactivity in aqueous media. Wettability induces hydrophobic vs. hydrophilic selectivity
作者:Thi-Thanh-Tam Nguyen、François-Xavier Simon、Niaz Ali Khan、Marc Schmutz、Philippe J. Mésini
DOI:10.1039/c2jm30184a
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Aerogels were formed from organogels of diamides by a supercritical drying process. The used organogels are composed of self-assembled nanotubes of 29 nm in diameter. SEM studies reveal that the resulting aerogels are made of fibers with diameters comprised between 40 and 200 nm, corresponding to bundles of the starting nanotubes, while WAXS indicated that most of the crystalline structure detected in the self-assemblies of the starting gel is preserved in aerogels. Two different reactive diamides bearing respectively an alkynyl and an azido function were investigated. We have tested the reactivity of the resulting aerogels under copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition in aqueous solution. These aerogels react easily with hydrophobic compounds although reactants are in separate phases. In contrast, they do not react with hydrosoluble compounds, because of their superhydrophobicity.
Direct functionalization of self-assembled nanotubes overcomes unfavorable self-assembling processes
作者:Thi-Thanh-Tam Nguyen、François-Xavier Simon、Marc Schmutz、Philippe J. Mésini
DOI:10.1039/b903797g
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Diamides containing alkyne and azido were self-assembled into nanotubes and were reacted under their self-assembled state with small molecules by “click chemistry”; the resulting compounds remain self-assembled into new nanotubes that cannot be formed by simple self-assembly of the constituting molecules.
Modification of self-assembled nanotubes by click chemistry generates new nanotubes by an out-of equilibrium process
作者:Thi-Thanh-Tam Nguyen、François-Xavier Simon、Jérôme Combet、Marc Schmutz、Philippe J. Mésini
DOI:10.1039/c0sm00810a
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An aromatic diamide compound self-assembles in non-polar solvents to form nanotubes with diameters of 27 nm. We have synthesized different analogues of this compound and we found that the ones bearing an alkyne or an azide group are still able to form nanotubes with diameters of the same order. The functional groups offered the possibility to perform copper catalyzed alkyne and azide cycloadditions (CuAACs), which were achieved directly on the self-assembled tubes. The reaction yielded new nanotubes with similar dimensions to the starting ones, as shown by freeze fracture electron microscopy and SAXS. Chemical analysis of those tubes shows that they are composed mainly of the reacted molecules. When these new nanotubes are dissociated by heat they cannot be re-assembled from their constituting molecules, which shows that they do not result from a conventional reversible self-assembly at equilibrium.