Toward self-assembled surface-mounted prismatic altitudinal rotors. A test case: molecular rectangle.
[structure: see text] A self-assembly path toward prismatic molecular rotors based on transversely reactive terminally metalated molecular rods and pyridine-terminated star connectors is outlined. The concept is tested on the assembly of the biphenyl rod [Ph(2)P(CH(2))(3)PPh(2)Pt(+)-C(6)H(4)-C(6)H(4)-Pt(+)[Ph(2)P(CH(2))(3)PPh(2)] and 4,4'-bipyridyl into a molecular rectangle, fully characterized by NMR and MS, including diffusion-ordered NMR and collision-induced dissociation MS.
Caskey
Douglas C
DC
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, USA.
Shoemaker
Richard K
RK
Michl
Josef
J