Issue 3, 2004
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Chemical Communications

In flagrante metallo-cyclophane self-assembly?†

Peter J. Cragg,a   Fenton R. Heirtzler,‡*b   Mark J. Howard,c   Ivan Prokesd  and  Thomas Weyhermüllere  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Cockcroft Building, UK

b School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK
E-mail: heirtzler@web.de
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c Research School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

d Department of Chemistry, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, UK

e Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Stiftstaße 34-36, 45470 Mülheim, Germany

Abstract

The dimeric self-assembly of an alkyl-substituted pyrazine–pyridine hybrid ligand with copper(I) initially affords its sterically congested, C2-symmetric stereoisomer, which then undergoes partial isomerisation to a dynamic mixture containing the less crowded meso-configured diastereomer.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B310558J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Aug 2003
Accepted
28 Oct 2003
First published
07 Jan 2004

Chem. Commun., 2004, 280-281

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P. J. Cragg, F. R. Heirtzler, M. J. Howard, I. Prokes and T. Weyhermüller, Chem. Commun., 2004, 280 DOI: 10.1039/B310558J

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