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Cover Picture: Precise Molecular Fission and Fusion: Quantitative Self‐Assembly and Chemistry of a Metallo‐Cuboctahedron (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 32/2015)
Author(s) -
Xie TingZheng,
Guo Kai,
Guo Zaihong,
Gao WenYang,
Wojtas Lukasz,
Ning GuoHong,
Huang Mingjun,
Lu Xiaocun,
Li JingYi,
Liao ShengYun,
Chen YuSheng,
Moorefield Charles N.,
Saunders Mary Jane,
Cheng Stephen Z. D.,
Wesdemiotis Chrys,
Newkome George R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201505542
Subject(s) - counterion , supramolecular chemistry , crystallography , terpyridine , octahedron , chemistry , stoichiometry , ligand (biochemistry) , crystal structure , metal , nanotechnology , materials science , ion , organic chemistry , receptor , biochemistry
Archimedean‐based supramolecular cages are stoichiometrically synthesized from a bent, X‐type, terpyridine‐based ligand and Zn 2+ or Cd 2+ ions as described by G. R. Newkome, C. Wesdemiotis et al. in their Communication on page 9224 ff. Triggered by changing the concentration or the counterions, these unique materials undergo a fission–fusion process between a cuboctahedron and two octahedra that is reminiscent of the well‐known biological processes observed in cell replication.