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Can Coordination‐Driven Supramolecular Self‐Assembly Reactions Be Conducted from Fully Aliphatic Linkers?
Author(s) -
Elsayed Moussa Mehdi,
Evariste Sloane,
Krämer Barbara,
Réau Régis,
Scheer Manfred,
Lescop Christophe
Publication year - 2018
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.201709119
Subject(s) - bimetallic strip , supramolecular chemistry , intermetallic , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , materials science , crystallography , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , metal , crystal structure , alloy
The reaction between a preassembled Cu I bimetallic molecular clip with a short intermetallic distance and a series of fully aliphatic cyano‐capped ditopic linkers with increasing lengths was investigated. It is shown that, depending on the length of the ditopic linkers, the rational design of unprecedented supramolecular compact metallacycles containing fully aliphatic walls is possible. The specific preorganized molecular arrangement of the molecular clip used favors stabilizing interlinker London dispersion interactions, which allow, as the length of the linkers increases, the selective formation of discrete compact metallacycles at the expense of 1D coordination polymers. The generalizability of this approach was demonstrated by the reaction of fully aliphatic cyano‐capped linkers with two other types of preassembled Cu I bimetallic molecular clips that also had short intermetallic distances.