Orientational self-sorting: formation of structurally defined Pd4L8 and Pd6L12 cages from low-symmetry dipyridyl ligands

Ru-Jin Li; Adam Marcus; Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani; Kay Severin

doi:10.1039/D1CC03828A

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Orientational self-sorting: formation of structurally defined Pd₄L₈ and Pd₆L₁₂ cages from low-symmetry dipyridyl ligands†

Ru-Jin Li,^a Adam Marcus,^b Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani

^a and Kay Severin

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^a Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: kay.severin@epfl.ch

^b Institute of Mathematics, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

Tetra- and hexanuclear coordination cages were obtained in reactions of [Pd(CH₃CN)₄](BF₄)₂ with low-symmetry dipyridyl ligands. In both cases, only one structurally defined complex was formed out of a vast pool of potential isomers.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC03828A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 15 ጁላይ 2021
Accepted: 03 ሴፕቴ 2021
First published: 10 ሴፕቴ 2021

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Chem. Commun., 2021,57, 10023-10026

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Orientational self-sorting: formation of structurally defined Pd₄L₈ and Pd₆L₁₂ cages from low-symmetry dipyridyl ligands

R. Li, A. Marcus, F. Fadaei-Tirani and K. Severin, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 10023 DOI: 10.1039/D1CC03828A

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