Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Supramolecular Truncated Tetrahedra
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- 13 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Vol. 70 (12) , 4861-4864
Abstract
Two nanoscale truncated tetrahedra were synthesized via Pt(II)-mediated self-assembly. The first resulted from the reaction of 3 equiv of cis-Pt(PMe3)2(OTf)2 and 2 equiv of 1,3,5-tris(4-pyridylethynyl)benzene, giving a truncated tetrahedron with a diameter of approximately 25 Å. The second, analogous structure was obtained by the self-assembly of cis-Pt(PMe3)2(OTf)2 and 1,3,5-tris(4-pyridyl-trans-ethenyl)benzene. These two truncated tetrahedra were crystallized after partially exchanging the counterion to cobalticarborane for the X-ray structural analysis.Keywords
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