Wei-Bo Hu, Wen-Jing Hu, Xiao-Li Zhao, Yahu A. Liu, Jiu-Sheng Li, Biao Jiang and Ke Wen
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 13882-13885
DOI:
10.1039/C5CC05623C,
Communication
A topologically novel [2]rota[2]catenane containing both a pillar[5]arene-imidazolium based [2]rotaxane subunit and a crown ether-tetracationic cyclophane [CBPQT]4+ based [2]catenane one was designed and constructed. The structure of the [2]rota[2]catenane was thoroughly characterized by NMR spectra, MS spectrometry and single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.