A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages.

نویسندگان

  • Brendan F Abrahams
  • Berin A Boughton
  • Nicholas J FitzGerald
  • Jessica L Holmes
  • Richard Robson
چکیده

The combination of six Cu(II) centres with four cyclotricatechylene (ctc(6-)) ligands generates large (Cu(6)ctc(4))(12-) cages with the topology of the tetrahedron. The anionic tetrahedral cages are cemented together, triangular face to triangular face, by Na(+) cations together with water molecules to generate a highly symmetric diamond-like assembly (space group Fd-3m, the same as that of diamond itself) whose adamantane-like units have an iodide ion at the centre of every cyclohexane-like face.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Chemical communications

دوره 47 26  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011