Design and Synthesis of Low-Coordinate Metal-Ligand Building Blocks for Supramolecular Assembly, Co-Assembly and Polymerization with Controlled Dimensional Growth

Professor Yam, Vivian Wing Wah   (Principal Investigator (PI))

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2018-09-01

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Design and Synthesis of Low-Coordinate Metal-Ligand Building Blocks for Supramolecular Assembly, Co-Assembly and Polymerization with Controlled Dimensional Growth

Luminescence, Metal Complex Synthesis, Metal-Ligand Chromophores, Metal-Metal Interactions, Supramolecular Assembly

Chemical Sciences

Physical Sciences (P)

17302918

General Research Fund (GRF)

2018

Completed

1 To design and synthesize various target ligands, di- and tri-block copolymers and low-coordinate metal complexes, 2 To perform spectroscopic, physical and structural characterization of the newly synthesized target ligands, di- and tri-block copolymers, and low-coordinate metal complexes, 3 To perform two-component electrostatic co-assembly using the low-coordinate metal complexes as unimers with di- and tri-block copolymers and to characterize the newly synthesized two-component metallosupramolecular co-assemblies, 4 To extend the work to multi-component electrostatic metallosupramolecular co-assembly and living supramolecular polymerization, 5 To study the morphological properties of the two- and multi-component metallosupramolecular co-assemblies and their associated electronic absorption and luminescence behaviour, and 6 To extend the two- and multi-component supramolecular co-assembly and polymerization strategy for the synthesis of metallosupramolecular co-assemblies of controlled dimensional growth.