Self-assembly of a helical dicopper(I) metallophane

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Thomas Bark, Fenton Heirtzler, Thomas Weyhermüller and Fenton Heirtzler


Abstract

X-Ray crystallographic and 1H NMR spectroscopic studies show that, in the presence of copper(I), an oligopyridyl pyrazine derivative spontaneously forms a single chiral, cyclophane-like dimeric complex and that this is the sole species present in solution and the solid state.


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