Veronica Carta, Miguel A. Soto and Mark J. MacLachlan
Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 1245-1248
DOI:
10.1039/C8CC09710K,
Communication
An unstrained palladium-containing macrocycle was expanded by a ring-opening metathesis strategy. This reaction was driven by coordination of a bulky ligand, 2,6-lutidine, to the palladium center, enabling a monometallic macrocycle to transform into a bimetallic dimeric macrocycle.