High‐Fidelity, Narcissistic Self‐Sorting in the Synthesis of Organometallic Assemblies from Poly‐NHC Ligands

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 56; no. 26; pp. 7393 - 7397
• Main Authors: Sinha, Narayan, Tan, Tristan T. Y., Peris, Eduardo, Hahn, F. Ekkehardt
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 19.06.2017
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Benzene; Chemical synthesis; Coordination compounds; Cylinders; Fidelity; Gold; Hydrocarbons; Ligands; Narcissism; narcissistic self-sorting; organometallic complexes; poly-NHC ligands; Silver; silver and gold; supramolecular chemistry; organometallic complexes; silver and gold; narcissistic self-sorting; supramolecular chemistry; poly-NHC ligands

Highly selective, narcissistic self‐sorting has been observed in the one‐pot synthesis of three organometallic molecular cylinders of type [M3{L‐(NHC)3}2](PF6)3 (M=Ag+, Au+; L=1,3,5‐benzene, triphenylamine, or 1,3,5‐triphenylbenzene) from L‐(NHC)3 and silver(I) or gold(I) ions. The molecular cylinde...