title: Self-assembly of nanoscopic coordination cages using a flexible tripodal amide containing linker.
abstract: Flexible, nanoscopic 3D cages containing the amide functionality were prepared via coordination-driven self-assembly from palladium(II) based 90 degrees ditopic acceptor units and a tripod N,N',N''-tris(3-pyridyl)trimesic amide. Both cages were characterized by NMR ((31)P, (1)H) and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. An MM2 force field simulation of one cage showed that the shape is likely pseudo trigonal bipyramidal with the diameter of the inner cavity of the cage about 1.9 nm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
authors.forename: Partha Sarathi
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Neeladri
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Stang
mesh_terms: D000577:Amides / Q000737:chemistry*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D036103:Nanotechnology; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
chemical_list: D000577:Amides; D046911:Macromolecular Substances