@article{GershbergFennelRehmetal.2016,
  author    = {Gershberg, Jana and Fennel, Franziska and Rehm, Thomas H. and Lochbrunner, Stefan and W{\"u}rthner, Frank},
  title     = {Anti-cooperative supramolecular polymerization: a new K\(_2\)-K model applied to the self-assembly of perylene bisimide dye proceeding via well-defined hydrogen-bonded dimers},
  series = {Chemical Science},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Chemical Science},
  number    = {3},
  doi       = {10.1039/c5sc03759j},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-191428},
  pages     = {1729-1737},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {A perylene bisimide dye bearing amide functionalities at the imide positions derived from amino acid L-alanine and a dialkoxy-substituted benzyl amine self-assembles into tightly bound dimers by π-π-stacking and hydrogen bonding in chloroform. In less polar or unpolar solvents like toluene and methylcyclohexane, and in their mixtures, these dimers further self-assemble into extended oligomeric aggregates in an anti-cooperative process in which even numbered aggregates are highly favoured. The stepwise transition from dimers into oligomers can not be properly described by conventional K\(_2\)-K model, and thus a new K\(_2\)-K aggregation model has been developed, which interpretes the present anti-cooperative supramolecular polymerization more appropriately. The newly developed K\(_2\)-K model will be useful to describe self-assembly processes of a plethora of other π-conjugated molecules that are characterized by a favored dimer species.},
  language  = {en}
}