Coassembly-Directed Fabrication of an Exfoliated Form of Alternating Multilayers Composed of a Self-assembled Organoplatinum(II) Complex-Fullerene Dyad.

The self-assembly of covalently linked dyad 1a of cyclometalated organoplatinum(II) complex and fullerene afforded alternating multilayers of electron-rich and -deficient molecular components. On the other hand, the coassembly of 1a with organoplatinum(II) complex 2 having no fullerene moiety gave an exfoliated form of the multilayers, by inhibiting the interdigitation of organoplatinum(II) complex moieties of 1a. The coassembled 1a/2 transports both of the photogenerated holes and electrons, while the self-assembled 1a allows only the transportation of electrons under the same conditions.