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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
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Self-assembled half-sandwich polyhedral cages via flexible Schiff-base ligands: an unusual macrocycle-to-cage
Jing-Jing Liu1, Yue-Jian Lin, Zhen-Hua Li
1State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan road, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China. gxjin@fudan.edu.cn.
Abstract:
An edge-directed strategy was adopted to construct highly ordered polyhedral structures using flexible functions. Half-sandwich M6(L1)4 octahedral and M8(L2)4 cubic cages have been assembled by flexible Schiff-base ligands upon coordination to Cp*Rh(iii) organometallic acceptors. In particular, the rearrangement from a Rh(iii)-based half-sandwich M2(HL1)2 macrocycle to M6(L1)4 cage was found to occur in a solution.
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