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Gyroid Nickel Nanostructures from Diblock Copolymer Supramolecules
Published on: April 28, 2014
(5-n-Butyl-10,20-diiso-butyl-porphyrin-ato)nickel(II)
Mathias O Senge1, Katja Dahms1
1SFI Tetrapyrrole Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Ni(C32H36N4)], contains two independent mol-ecules exhibiting an overall ruffled conformation of the porphyrin macrocycle and differing mainly in the positions of the methyl groups. The average Ni-N bond lengths are 1.912 (2) and 1.910 (2) Å in the two mol-ecules. The mol-ecules form a closely spaced lattice structure in which neighbouring porphyrins are oriented in a nearly perpendicular fashion to each other. The compound was prepared via nucleophilic substitution of (5,15-diiso-butyl-porphyrinato)nickel(II) with n-butyl-lithium.
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