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Rational Design of a Face‐Centred Square‐Cuboid Coordination Cage
Author(s) -
Han Muxin,
Michel Reent,
Clever Guido H.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201303181
Subject(s) - cuboid , ligand (biochemistry) , cage , square (algebra) , rational design , chemistry , crystallography , tris , computational chemistry , stereochemistry , materials science , nanotechnology , mathematics , geometry , combinatorics , biochemistry , receptor
The simple synthetic conversion of a 90°‐angled bis‐pyridyl ligand into a tripodal tris‐pyridyl ligand leads to the formal transformation of a cubic ( a = b = c ) into a square‐cuboid ( a = b ≠ c ) coordination cage. Mathematical considerations associated with the ligand design, together with X‐ray structure results, NMR spectroscopic and mass spectrometric characterization and molecular modeling of both coordination cages are presented and discussed.