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Selective Assembly and Disassembly of a Water‐Soluble Fe 10 L 15 Prism
Author(s) -
Zarra Salvatore,
Clegg Jack K.,
Nitschke Jonathan R.
Publication year - 2013
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.201209694
Subject(s) - prism , tetrahedron , triangular prism , materials science , chemistry , crystallography , optics , physics
Survival of the fittest : Two water‐soluble metal–organic architectures, a tetrahedron and a pentagonal prism, were selectively assembled from the same building blocks under different reaction conditions. In a mixture of the two, the prism was disassembled upon addition of 4‐methoxyaniline to form a mononuclear complex, while leaving the more stable tetrahedral structure intact.