Construction of Smart Supramolecular Polymeric Hydrogels Cross-linked by Discrete Organoplatinum(II) Metallacycles via Post-Assembly Polymerization

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• 作者：Wei Zheng ; Li-Jun Chen ; Guang Yang ; Bin Sun ; Xu Wang ; Bo Jiang ; Guang-Qiang Yin ; Li Zhang ; Xiaopeng Li ; Minghua Liu ; Guosong Chen ; Hai-Bo Yang
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 13, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：138
• 期：14
• 页码：4927-4937
• 全文大小：811K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Postassembly modification strategy has been successfully employed in the construction of discrete metallosupramolecular assemblies. However, the most known reports have been limited to the simple structural conversion through the easy covalent reactions, thus hindering the development of organometallic functional materials. In this study, we first combined coordination-driven self-assembly and postassembly reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization to produce a new family of star supramolecular polymers containing well-defined metallacycles as cores, which featured typical lower critical solution temperature (LCST) behavior in water because of the existence of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAM) moieties. Moreover, the obtained star polymers could further form supramolecular hydrogels cross-linked by discrete hexagonal metallacycles at room temperature without heating–cooling process. Interestingly, the resultant polymeric hydrogels exhibited stimuli-responsive behavior toward temperature and bromide anion as well as self-healing property. We demonstrated that the dynamic nature of Pt–N bonds in the hexagonal metallacycles played an important role in determining the stimuli-responsive and self-healing property of the final soft matters. Thus, merging coordination-driven self-assembly and postassembly polymerization provided a new avenue to the preparation of functional materials containing well-defined, discrete metal–organic assemblies as main scaffolds.