Dynamic Geometry and Kinetics of Polymer Confined in Self-Assembly via Cooperative Hydrogen Bonding: A Solid-State NMR Study under Paramagnetic Doping
Dynamic Geometry and Kinetics of Polymer Confined in Self-Assembly via Cooperative Hydrogen Bonding: A Solid-State NMR Study under Paramagnetic Doping
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通过协同氢键自组装限制聚合物的动态几何结构和动力学:顺磁掺杂下的固态核磁共振研究
DOI:
10.1021/ma100449n
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Yongjin Li
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作者:
Toshikazu Miyoshi;Wei Hu;Yongjin Li
Well-defined arrangements of the secondary intermolecular interactions play important roles for the design of new materials, which leads to unique self-assemblies consisting of multicomponent molecules with different sizes and shapes. Much work has gone into characterizing the static structures of such selfassembled systems. 1 Cooperative secondary interactions influence the molecular dynamics of the components and the bulk properties. Therefore, understanding relationship between microscopic dynamics and secondary interactions in self-assemblies is an important subject in this field. 2 Poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO) is a hydrogen acceptor and can form supramolecular crystals with a small molecule of UREA, which is a hydrogen donor, in methanol solutions. XRD revealed that two-thirds of the UREA molecules form nanochannels with a diameter of∼ 1 nm, inside which isolated PEO chains and the remaining UREA molecules are included (Figure 1a). 3 Several groups have investigated PEO dynamics in this unique morphology by conventional NMR relaxation measurements and have suggested that the dynamics of PEO is restricted by cooperative hydrogen bonding. 4, 5 However, the details of the geometry and kinetics of the molecular dynamics of PEO in this supramolecular system are not well understood.Solid-state (SS) NMR techniques using magnetically anisotropic interactions can provide not only the kinetics and but also the geometry of the molecular dynamics. 6 In the past decade, various sophisticated SS-NMR techniques have been developed to investigate molecular dynamics in a wide frequency range in natural abundance. 7-11 Among them, center bands only detection of exchange (CODEX) 7, 8 NMR can provide both the geometry and kinetics of molecular dynamics in a slow range and has been successfully applied to investigate the molecular dynamics of small molecules, 7 polymers, 12-14 liquid crystals, 15 and polymer blends. 16 However, this robust technique suffers from low NMR sensitivity, which has limited its application in chemically complex systems and/or systems with long T1H values. Recently, Wickramasinghe et al. proposed a simple approach using paramagnetic doping for sensitivity enhancement. 17 Adding a small amount of a paramagnetic compound into a protein crystal could effectively shorten theT1H value without disturbing the structures. Similar strategies may be applicable to self-assemblied systems. In this Communication, CODEX NMR and paramagnetic doping have been used to elucidate the dynamic nature of PEO in a PEO-UREA supramolecular system in natural abundance. Figure 1a shows the 13C CPMAS NMR spectrum for PEOUREA supramolecules at 213 K and their structures. PEO shows a very sharp 13C signal at 70 ppm. The single resonance supports