Dynamic nanoscale Borromean links.
Employing halogen atom labels on one of the ligand precursors, the lability of at least some of the 30 dative and 12 imine bonds stabilizing and constituting the three rings of a metallo-Borromean linked compound are scrambled in acidic methanolic solution.
Chichak
Kelly S
KS
California NanoSystems Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Cantrill
Stuart J
SJ
Stoddart
J Fraser
JF