Abstract
The self-assembly of irregular metallo-supramolecular hexagons and parallelograms has been achieved in a self-selective manner upon mixing 120° unsymmetrical dipyridyl ligands with 60° or 120° organoplatinum acceptors in a 1:1 ratio. The polygons have been characterized using 31P and 1H multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) as well as X-ray crystallography. Geometric features of the molecular subunits direct the self-selection process, which is supported by molecular force field computations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3554-3557 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Organic Chemistry |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - 1 May 2009 |