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Integrative Self‐Sorting Synthesis of a Fe 8 Pt 6 L 24 Cubic Cage
Author(s) -
Smulders Maarten M. J.,
Jiménez Azucena,
Nitschke Jonathan R.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201202050
Subject(s) - cage , tetrahedron , cube (algebra) , sorting , crystallography , ion , computer science , combinatorics , chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , algorithm , mathematics , organic chemistry
96 bonds were formed when 62 building blocks (heterotopic ligands with Fe II and Pt II ions) self‐assembled in a one‐pot reaction into a heterometallic Fe 8 Pt 6 L 24 cubic cage (see model, Fe purple, Pt orange, N blue). The dynamic nature of this method also allowed an efficient cage‐to‐cage conversion: a tetrahedral Fe 4 L 6 cage was converted into the Fe 8 Pt 6 L 24 cube, which was subsequently converted into a second tetrahedral Fe 4 L′ 6 cage.