Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 years ago

Signal-Induced Release of Guests from a Photolatent Metal–Phenolic Supramolecular Cage and Its Hybrid Assemblies

Signal-Induced Release of Guests from a Photolatent Metal–Phenolic Supramolecular Cage and Its Hybrid Assemblies
Chae Bin Kim, Beom Joo Yang, Ki Beom Jeong, Bon-Cheol Ku, Chiyoung Park, Seunghyun Lee
The coordination chemistry of plant polyphenols and metal ions can be used for coating various substrates and for creating modular superstructures. We herein explored this chemistry for the controlled release of guests from mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs). The selective adsorption of tannic acids (TAs) on MSN silica walls opens the MSN mesoporous channels without disturbing mass transport. The channel may be closed by the coordination of TA with CuII ions. Upon exposure to light, photolysis of Trojan horse guests (photoacid generators, PAGs) leads to acid generation, which enables the release of payloads by decomposing the outer coordination shell consisting of TA and CuII. We also fabricated a modular assembly of MSNs on glass substrates. The photoresponsive release characteristics of the resulting film are similar to those of the individual MSNs. This method is a fast and facile strategy for producing photoresponsive nanocontainers by non-covalent engineering of MSN surfaces that should be suitable for various applications in materials science. The unique adsorption and coordination characteristics of tannic acid were used to fabricate a photolatent supramolecular cage. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles that had been loaded with a photoacid generator and guest molecules were wrapped with a shell of tannic acid and CuII ions. Photoresponsive hybrid assemblies that can release guest molecules on demand were obtained.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201701152

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