Fluorescent metallacycle-cored polymers via covalent linkage and their use as contrast agents for cell imaging.

ABSTRACT: The covalent linkage of supramolecular monomers provides a powerful strategy for constructing dynamic polymeric materials whose properties can be readily tuned either by the selection of monomers or the choice of functional linkers. In this strategy, the stabilities of the supramolecular monomers and the reactions used to link the monomers are crucial because such monomers are normally dynamic and can disassemble during the linking process, leading to mixture of products. Therefore, although noncovalent interactions have been widely introduced into metallacycle structures to prepare metallosupramolecular polymers, metallacycle-cored polymers linked by covalent bonds have been rarely reported. Herein, we used the mild, highly efficient amidation reaction between alkylamine and N-hydroxysucc

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5056100 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature