Hydrogen bond assisted helical self-assembly into [n]catenane.
A [n]catenane supramolecular structure has been constructed by combination of metal-directed self-assembly with interligand hydrogen bonds which were confirmed by H NMR and DFT calculation.
Yin
Zhenming
Z
College of Chemistry and Life Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China. hsxyyzm@mail.tjnu.edu.cn
Zhang
Yanhua
Y
He
Jiaqi
J
Cheng
Jin-Pei
JP