Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of PEO-Functionalized Perylene Bisimides: Supramolecular Diversity from a Limited Set of Molecular Building Blocks

A limited number of poly(ethylene oxide)-substituted perylene bisimides, some of which are equipped with terpyridine ligands for transition-metal coordination (see structure), combine different types of noncovalent interactions to yield optoelectronically active organic materials with different types of supramolecular morphologies.