A double intramolecular cage contraction within a self-assembled metallo-supramolecular bowl.
When isolated in the high vacuum of an ESI-FTICR mass spectrometer, bowl-shaped metallo-supramolecular M(6)L(4) assemblies undergo a surprising and mechanistically interesting intramolecular double cage contraction to yield smaller M(3)L(2) cages.
Brusilowskij
Boris
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Institut für Chemie und Biochemie der Freien Universität, Takustr. 3, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Neubacher
Saskia
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Schalley
Christoph A
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