Multicomponent Self‐Assembly of Metallo‐Supramolecular Macrocycles and Cages through Dynamic Heteroleptic Terpyridine Complexation

• Published in: Chemistry : a European journal Vol. 24; no. 37; pp. 9274 - 9284
• Main Authors: Wang, Shih‐Yu, Huang, Jyun‐Yang, Liang, Yen‐Peng, He, Yun‐Jui, Chen, Yu‐Sheng, Zhan, Yi‐Yang, Hiraoka, Shuichi, Liu, Yi‐Hung, Peng, Shie‐Ming, Chan, Yi‐Tsu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 02.07.2018
• Subjects: Assembly; Cadmium; Cages; Chemistry; Complexation; Construction; coordination modes; Lability; Ligands; Metal ions; metalation; Metallography; multicomponent reactions; Parallelograms; Photoluminescence; Photons; self-assembly; Shape recognition; supramolecular chemistry

Spontaneous formation of the heteroleptic cadmium(II) bis(terpyridine) complex under ambient conditions can be achieved by a combination of 6,6′′‐di(2,6‐dimethoxylphenyl)‐substituted and unsubstituted terpyridine‐based ligands. Building on this dynamic heteroleptic complexation, diverse metallo‐supr...