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An M 12 (L 1 ) 12 (L 2 ) 12 Cantellated Tetrahedron: A Case Study on Mixed‐Ligand Self‐Assembly
Author(s) -
Sun QingFu,
Sato Sota,
Fujita Makoto
Publication year - 2014
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.201408652
Subject(s) - tetrahedron , intramolecular force , crystallography , homothetic transformation , combinatorics , ligand (biochemistry) , chemistry , sorting , physics , stereochemistry , mathematics , geometry , receptor , biochemistry , algorithm
In the self‐assembly of Pd II ions and two different, but similarly shaped, ligands ( 1 and 2 ), neither random mixing nor self‐sorting of the two ligands into two unmixed structures was observed. Instead a mixed, yet sorted, Pd 12 ( 1 ) 12 ( 2 ) 12 cantellated tetrahedron (and its pseudoisomer) was selectively formed, thus revealing a fine example of intramolecular self‐sorting. A case study showed that a homothetic ratio of >2 is necessary to observe cantellated tetrahedra.