A catenane consisting of a large ring threaded through both cyclic units of a handcuff-like compound.
The template effect of copper(I) allowed the preparation of a new catenane constructed around a bis-macrocyclic unit; a double ring-closing metathesis reaction afforded the central ring which is threaded through both rings of the bis-macrocycle.
Frey
Julien
J
Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale UMR 7513 du CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
Kraus
Tomás
T
Heitz
Valérie
V
Sauvage
Jean-Pierre
JP