Influence of solvent and axial coordination on self-assembly of a heteroditopic porphyrin derivative

Abstract

A novel heteroditopic porphyrin and its zinc complex with four long aliphatic chains on the same side of the porphyrin ring were synthesized and used for controllable self-assembly. A variety of aggregation morphologies, including nanosheets, nanospheres, films, leaves, trunks, nanorods, and disks, were furnished by using different pyridyl ligands to coordinate with the Zn-porphyrin or selecting different solvents.