A molecular gate based on a porphyrin and a silver lock.
A Sn(IV) metallaporphyrin bearing a 4-pyridyl group on one meso position and a handle equipped also with a pyridyl unit functions in solution as a molecular gate in the presence of silver cation: the complexation-decomplexation of Ag(I) corresponds to the opening and closing motions of the gate.
Guenet
Aurélie
A
Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination Organique, UMR CNRS 7140, 4, rue Blaise Pascal, F-67000, Strasbourg, France.
Graf
Ernest
E
Kyritsakas
Nathalie
N
Allouche
Lionel
L
Hosseini
Mir Wais
MW