Volume 50, Issue 46 pp. 10851-10854
Communication

DNA-Programmed Glaser–Eglinton Reactions for the Synthesis of Conjugated Molecular Wires

Jens B. Ravnsbæk

Jens B. Ravnsbæk

Danish National Research Foundation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C (Denmark)

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Mikkel F. Jacobsen

Mikkel F. Jacobsen

Danish National Research Foundation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C (Denmark)

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Christian B. Rosen

Christian B. Rosen

Danish National Research Foundation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C (Denmark)

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Niels V. Voigt

Niels V. Voigt

Danish National Research Foundation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C (Denmark)

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Prof. Kurt V. Gothelf

Corresponding Author

Prof. Kurt V. Gothelf

Danish National Research Foundation: Center for DNA Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C (Denmark)

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First published: 22 September 2011
Citations: 30

The work was supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.

Graphical Abstract

Wire self-assembly: Short oligo(phenylene ethynylene) modules (black structures, see picture) are assembled by attached DNA strands, which also direct the formation of 1,3-diyne linkages between the modules by the Cu-mediated Glaser–Eglinton reaction to selectively form dimer, trimer, and tetramer conjugated wires of up to 8 nm in length.

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