Coumarin-Appended Stable Fluorescent Self-Complementary Quadruple-Hydrogen-Bonded Molecular Duplexes

In this paper we report a coumarin-conjugated self-assembling system adorned with valuable features such as high duplex stability and a built-in fluorophore, which would augment its application potential. This system forms a highly stable molecular duplex in a nonpolar solvent (Kdim > 1.9 × 107 M–1 in CDCl3). Due to the fluorescent property of coumarin, these new structural motifs may find potential application in material chemistry and supramolecular chemistry.