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Inside Back Cover: Light‐Controlled Interconversion between a Self‐Assembled Triangle and a Rhombicuboctahedral Sphere (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2016)
Author(s) -
Han Muxin,
Luo Yuansu,
Damaschke Bernd,
Gómez Laura,
Ribas Xavi,
Jose Anex,
Peretzki Patrick,
Seibt Michael,
Clever Guido H.
Publication year - 2016
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.201511198
Subject(s) - photochromism , cover (algebra) , supramolecular chemistry , self assembly , nanotechnology , kinetics , materials science , irradiation , chemistry , crystallography , physics , engineering , quantum mechanics , mechanical engineering , crystal structure
Stimuli‐responsive structural reorganizations found in nature inspire the synthesis of supramolecular mimics and functional materials. In their Communication on page 445 ff., G. Clever and co‐workers demonstrate that irradiating small, self‐assembled Pd 3 L 6 rings based on photochromic ligands with 313 nm light triggers their conversion into rhombicuboctahedral Pd 24 L 48 spheres measuring 7 nm across. Irradiation at 617 nm fully reverses the process, but with pronouncedly different kinetics.