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Cover Picture: Vertical Assembly of Giant Double‐ and Triple‐Decker Spoked Wheel Supramolecular Structures (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 43/2018)
Author(s) -
Liu Die,
Chen Mingzhao,
Li Yiming,
Shen Yixian,
Huang Jian,
Yang Xiaoyu,
Jiang Zhilong,
Li Xiaopeng,
Newkome George R.,
Wang Pingshan
Publication year - 2018
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.201811116
Subject(s) - ring (chemistry) , planar , supramolecular chemistry , ion , crystallography , cover (algebra) , physics , chemistry , materials science , stereochemistry , computer science , computer graphics (images) , engineering , crystal structure , quantum mechanics , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry
Horizontal assembly of 2D metallomacrocycles is a well‐known strategy for extending ring‐in‐ring planar metallostructures. In their Communication on page 14116 ff., P. Wang, G. R. Newkome et al. report the vertical self‐assembly of double‐ and triple‐decker 3D metallohexagons (depicted as stacked spoked wheels) from multitopic tristerpyridines and Cd 2+ ions. Comprising up to 72 ion pairs, the 3D metallohexagons show reversible gelation under thermodynamic conditions.