A highly modular and convergent approach for the synthesis of stimulant-responsive heteroligated cofacial porphyrin tweezer complexes.
The synthesis of new hemilabile phosphine ligands and their reaction with [Rh(COE)2Cl]2 to form dissymmetric heteroligated tweezer complexes using a halide-induced ligand rearrangement reaction are reported. These complexes can undergo reactions with small-molecule ligands and elemental anions quantitatively in situ, which serve to regulate the porphyrin-porphyrin distances and interactions within the assembly.
Oliveri
Christopher G
CG
Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA.
Nguyen
Sonbinh T
ST
Mirkin
Chad A
CA