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Chemical Communications

A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages†

Brendan F. Abrahams,*a   Berin A. Boughton,b   Nicholas J. FitzGerald,a   Jessica L. Holmesa  and  Richard Robson*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
E-mail: bfa@unimelb.edu.au, r.robson@unimelb.edu.au
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Tel: +61 3 8344 0341

b School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

Abstract

The combination of six Cu(II) centres with four cyclotricatechylene (ctc6−) ligands generates large (Cu6ctc4)12− cages with the topology of the tetrahedron. The anionic tetrahedral cages are cemented together, triangular face to triangular face, by Na+ cations together with water molecules to generate a highly symmetric diamond-like assembly (space group Fd-3m, the same as that of diamond itself) whose adamantane-like units have an iodide ion at the centre of every cyclohexane-like face.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC12723C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 May 2011
Accepted
11 May 2011
First published
31 May 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 7404-7406

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A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages

B. F. Abrahams, B. A. Boughton, N. J. FitzGerald, J. L. Holmes and R. Robson, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 7404 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC12723C

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