title: Expeditious assembly of mesoscopic metallocycles.
abstract: Very large chiral metallocycles with tunable cavities in the range of 0.9-22 nm were efficiently assembled from the requisite metal- and ligand-terminated oligomers that are built from the 2,2'-diacetoxy-1,1'-binaphthyl-3,3'-bis(ethyne) bridging ligand and trans-Pt(PEt3)2 metal connector. These unprecedented nanoscopic and mesoscopic molecular metallocycles have been characterized with 1H, 13C{1H}, and 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy, microanalysis, IR, UV-vis, and circular dichroism spectroscopies, MALDI-TOF MS, and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). SEC results indicated that the metallocycles appear to be much more compact and rigid than the metal- and ligand-terminated oligomers. The present molecular metallocycles provide interesting building blocks for the construction of larger functional structures that cannot be accessed from a top-down approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, CB #3290, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Wenbin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lin