Open AccessSelf-organizing super-structures formed from hydrogen-bonded biimidazolate metal complexes
Author(s) -
Makoto Tadokoro,
Hideaki Kanno,
Tadanori Kitajima,
H. Shimada-Umemoto,
Noritaka Nakanishi,
Kiyoshi Isobe,
Kazuhiro Nakasuji
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.072661699
Subject(s) - ribbon , zigzag , hydrogen bond , metal , crystallography , self assembly , foldamer , materials science , molecule , chemical physics , nanotechnology , chemistry , organic chemistry , geometry , mathematics , metallurgy , composite material
Manipulation of molecular crystals formed from self-organization is one of the important methods to develop the new molecular functional materials. In particular, we look upon mutual cohesive interactions of hydrogen bonding and metal coordination as one useful tool to construct the preprogramming superstructures. In this study, five controlled superstructures of a one-dimensional linear chain--a zigzag ribbon, right-handed and left-handed helices, and a two-dimensional honeycomb sheet--are newly created by using the neutral metal complexes with some 2,2'-biimidazolate mono-anions.
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