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Self-assembly of a porous metallo-[5]rotaxane
Kevin Kei Gwan Wong1, Nadia Hoyas Pérez1, Andrew J P White1
1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, 80 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, UK. james.lewis@imperial.ac.uk.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 5, 2020
Abstract:
A mechanically interlocked [2]rotaxane is reported incorporating a ditopic ligand moiety as one of the stoppers. Upon complexation with palladium(ii) ions a metallo-[5]rotaxane was formed with a porous Pd2L4 metal-organic cage at the core of the structure. This proof-of-principle system precedes work towards the construction of metal organic polyhedra with switchable mechano-chemical properties.
