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Frontispiece: Reversible Mechanical Interlocking of D‐Shaped Molecular Karabiners bearing Coordination‐Bond Loaded Gates: Route to Self‐Assembled [2]Catenanes
Author(s) -
Prusty Soumyakanta,
Krishnaswamy Shobhana,
Bandi Sreenivasulu,
Chandrika Baby,
Luo Jingwei,
McIndoe J. Scott,
Hanan Garry S.,
Chand Dillip Kumar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201584362
Subject(s) - catenane , ring (chemistry) , denticity , crystallography , chelation , self assembly , materials science , coordination complex , chemistry , stereochemistry , nanotechnology , molecule , metal , metallurgy , crystal structure , organic chemistry
Interlocked Coordination Rings . A series of D‐shaped binuclear coordination rings are prepared by the self‐assembly of two non‐chelating bidentate ligands and a chosen cis ‐protected Pd II unit in 1:1:2 ratios under appropriate conditions. In their Full Paper on page 15174 ff. , D. K. Chand et al. demonstrate the concentration‐dependent dynamic equilibria (in water) between a given D‐shaped ring and the corresponding interlocked pair of rings. The molecular species present in the equilibria are thoroughly characterized in spite of the intrinsic difficulties of such kind of systems.