Thursday, 3 November 2005 - 1:02 PM
493c
A Better Understanding of the Porphyrin Stacks: Experiments, Molecular Modeling and Simulation
Lu Yang, Huisheng Peng, Yunfeng Lu, and Hank Ashbaugh. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
The creation of novel supramolecular architectures through self-assembly of simple molecules is one of the most promising approaches for the design of nanodevices. Offering several attractive features for molecular self-assembly, porphyrins and their derivative have received much attention in the last two decades. Although it is believed that the major driving forces operating in the self-assembly process are the non-covalent intermolecular interactions such as pi-stacking, hydrogen bonding, and van der Waals interactions, little is know about the detailed mechanism of assembly. We present here a unique example of the formation of the ultra-large well-ordered superhelix structure based on the self-assembly of porphyrin derivative driven by these interactions. The geometry of this porphyrins derivative has been optimized using ab initio calculation to understand the structural and electronic properties. Umbrella-sampling molecular-dynamics simulations were performed to investigate porphyrin-porphyrin potentials of mean force in THF and water solution.
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