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Synthesis of Information-bearing Peptoids and their Sequence-directed Dynamic Covalent Self-assembly
Published on: February 6, 2020
Combining dynamic heteroleptic complex formation with constitutional dynamic synthesis: a facile way to M3LL' cage
Jian Fan1, Jan W Bats, Michael Schmittel
1Center for Micro- and Nanochemistry and Engineering, Organische Chemie I, Universitt Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Strasse, 57068 Siegen, Germany.
Abstract:
The quantitative preparation of heteroleptic copper(I) complexes arising from a combination of 2,9-diarylphenanthrolines and iminopyridines (Schiff bases) is described. This strategy was applied to construct mono- and binuclear complexes but equally a discrete three-dimensional M(3)LL' cage. By means of a constitutional dynamic synthesis, the heteroleptic aggregates were equally prepared from four-component mixtures using the copper(I) center as a catalyst for the in situ generation of the iminopyridine ligands.
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