Cyclodextrin-Based [3]Rotaxane-Crosslinked Fluorescent Polymer: Synthesis and De-Crosslinking Using Size Complementarity.

Vinyl-group-substituted, α-cyclodextrin-based, size-complementary [3]rotaxanes were synthesized as crosslinkers for rotaxane-crosslinked poly(methyl methacrylate) (RCP) by radical polymerization. The size complementarity of the crosslinkers made it possible to de-crosslink the RCP by heating, and the degree of decoupling was monitored by fluorescence intensity, depending on the state of the axle component of the rotaxane crosslink moiety.