Issue 3, 2017

PdII2L4-type coordination cages up to three nanometers in size

Abstract

The utilization of large ligands in coordination-based self-assembly represents an attractive strategy for the construction of supramolecular assemblies more than two nanometers in size. However, the implementation of this strategy is hampered by the fact that the preparation of such ligands often requires substantial synthetic effort. Herein, we describe a simple one-step protocol, which allows large bipyridyl ligands with a bent shape to be synthesized from easily accessible and/or commercially available starting materials. The ligands were used to construct PdII2L4-type coordination cages of unprecedented size. Furthermore, we provide evidence that these cages may be stabilized by close intramolecular packing of lipophilic ligand side chains. Packing effects of this kind are frequently encountered in protein assemblies, but they are seldom used as a design element in metallasupramolecular chemistry.

Graphical abstract: PdII2L4-type coordination cages up to three nanometers in size

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
24 Oct 2016
Accepted
09 Nov 2016
First published
18 Nov 2016
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem. Sci., 2017,8, 1901-1908

PdII2L4-type coordination cages up to three nanometers in size

S. M. Jansze, M. D. Wise, A. V. Vologzhanina, R. Scopelliti and K. Severin, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1901 DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04732G

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