IISER MOHALI

Abstract: Our research work aims at development of donor-acceptor building blocks which undergo self-assembly in aqueous media to generate ‘lighted’ assemblies in aqueous media. These assemblies having appropriate binding sites for interactions with specific analytes undergo guest induced morphology transformation and exhibit interesting photophysical properties. Very recently, we have developed supramolecular assemblies having chiral handles and investigated the achiral/chiral guest induced chirality transformations in aqueous media. Furthermore, we have also developed metal based as well as metal free supramolecular catalytic ensembles for carrying out various organic transformations. In the presentation, different aspects of development of these ‘lighted’ materials and their molecular recognition and catalytic applications will be discussed.