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

Autor: Abrahams BF; School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. bfa@unimelb.edu.au, Boughton BA, FitzGerald NJ, Holmes JL, Robson R
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) [Chem Commun (Camb)] 2011 Jul 14; Vol. 47 (26), pp. 7404-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 May 31.
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12723c
Abstrakt: 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.
Databáze: MEDLINE