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Construction of phthalocyanine‐terminated polystyrene nanoarchitectures
Author(s) -
Loos Femke,
de la Torre Gema,
Torres Tomás,
Cornelissen Jeroen J. L. M.,
Rowan Alan E.,
Nolte Roeland J. M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of physical organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1395
pISSN - 0894-3230
DOI - 10.1002/poc.2927
Subject(s) - phthalocyanine , polystyrene , porphyrin , chemistry , polymer , atom transfer radical polymerization , supramolecular chemistry , styrene , polymerization , copolymer , photochemistry , polymer chemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , materials science , molecule
Nanostructuring of phthalocyanine‐based materials is a powerful tool towards the preparation of new materials with outstanding properties. It has been previously shown that porphyrin‐functionalized and phthalocyanine‐functionalized polymers give rise to nanosized aggregates. With the goal in mind of searching new phthalocyanine‐containing polymeric materials that are able to self‐organize into stable supramolecular nanostructures, we have prepared unsymmetrically functionalized Zn(II) phthalocyanines that are able to behave as initiators in the atom transfer radical polymerization of styrene. Hybrid phthalocyanine–polystyrene materials of different tail lengths have been prepared, and their self‐organization behavior was studied by means of UV–Vis spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy . Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.