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A Matter of Fidelity: Self‐Sorting Behavior of Di‐Gold Metallotweezers
Author(s) -
Ibáñez Susana,
Peris Eduardo
Publication year - 2019
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.201901880
Subject(s) - linker , tweezers , sorting , pyrene , chemistry , molecular tweezers , nanotechnology , materials science , crystallography , computer science , organic chemistry , supramolecular chemistry , crystal structure , programming language , operating system
Cation‐induced high selective self‐sorting is observed for reactions involving a series of di‐gold metallotweezers. The variation of the nature of the arms of the tweezers (benzo‐imidazolylidene or pyrene‐imidazolylidene), or the rigid bis‐alkynyl linker (anthracenyl‐bis‐alkynyl or xanthenyl‐bis‐alkynyl), induces different type of self‐sorting events upon addition of a metal cation (Cu + , Tl + , or Ag + ). Combining two tweezers with the same arms and different linkers produces narcissistic self‐sorting. The combination of tweezers with the same linker and different ligands at the arms produces social self‐sorting.