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Self‐Assembly of a Circular Double Helicate
Author(s) -
Hasenknopf Bernold,
Lehn JeanMarie,
Kneisel Boris O.,
Baum Gerhard,
Fenske Dieter
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199618381
Subject(s) - ligand (biochemistry) , ion , torus , circular dna , chemistry , tris , crystallography , chloride , double strand , stereochemistry , dna , geometry , mathematics , biochemistry , receptor , genome , organic chemistry , dna repair , gene
The simple reaction of a tris‐bpy ligand strand with FeCl 2 leads to the self‐assembly of the unique cation 1 , which consists of a torus formed by five ligands wrapped around five Fe II ions in a double‐helical fashion and closed around a central chloride ion. This structure, a fivefold circular helicate, is a helicate analogue of circular DNA.