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The First Inorganic "Tennis Ball" Encapsulating an Anion
Kwan Mook Kim1, Jung Su Park2, Yeong-Sang Kim2
1Life Science Division Korea Institute of Science and Technology Seoul 130-650 (Korea) Fax: (+82) 2-958-5089.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|May 2, 2018
Abstract:
New balls please! Reaction of Cu(BF4 )2 with [(dach)PtII ] (dach=trans (±)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane) and bis(ethylthio)methylenepropanedioate (BETMP) gave [{(dach)Pt(BETMP)}2 Cu(BF4 )2 ] (1; shown schematically). Dimerization of 1 in methanol leads to the first inorganic "tennis ball" 2 [Eq. (1)]. A BF4- ion is encapsulated in the cavity of 2.