Issue 2, 2014

A controllable and dynamic assembly system based on discrete metallocages

Abstract

A novel self-assembly system has been developed, in which Ag6L4 cages can not only effectively assemble into a polycatenane containing multiple mechanical bonds in their supersaturated (MeOH–CHCl3) solution in a kinetically-controlled way, but can also be directly linked into a highly ordered polycage in the unsaturated solution through a thermodynamically-controlled assembly process. Moreover, the newly-constructed multiple mechanical bonds can also be opened and transformed into metal–metal interactions through reconstruction of the kinetically-controlled product into the thermodynamically-controlled product in the (MeOH–CHCl3) system, while the more strongly polarised DMSO solution can only open these multiple mechanical bonds.

Graphical abstract: A controllable and dynamic assembly system based on discrete metallocages

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
30 Aug 2013
Accepted
18 Oct 2013
First published
21 Oct 2013

Chem. Sci., 2014,5, 483-488

A controllable and dynamic assembly system based on discrete metallocages

Q. Chen, F. Jiang, D. Yuan, G. Lyu, L. Chen and M. Hong, Chem. Sci., 2014, 5, 483 DOI: 10.1039/C3SC52442F

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