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Synthesis of Information-bearing Peptoids and their Sequence-directed Dynamic Covalent Self-assembly
Published on: February 6, 2020
New stepwise approach to inert heterometallic triple-stranded helicates
Nicholas C Fletcher1, Rodney T Brown, Andrew P Doherty
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Stranmillis Road, Belfast BT9 5AG, UK. n.fletcher@qub.ac.uk
Abstract:
The new tripodal fac-functionalized building block, fac-ruthenium(II) tris-(5-hydroxymethyl-2,2'-bipyridine), has been synthesized as a single geometric isomer and used as starting point in the isolation of a kinetically inert heterometallic helicate by the stepwise inclusion of additional 2,2'-bipyridine chelating groups followed by a second metal ion. This stepwise synthetic methodology gives access to a new range of chiral nanoscale structures inaccessible by traditional self-assembly procedures.
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