title: Clicking hard-core sugar balls.
abstract: CLICK methodology has been used for the preparation of saccharide decorated {M(bpy)(3)} scaffolds; mononuclear complexes with two or six xylopyranose residues have been prepared in excellent yield from alkyne-functionalised cores and azidosugars.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 51, Basel, Switzerland CH 4056. edwin.constable@unibas.ch
authors.forename: Edwin C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Constable
authors.forename: Catherine E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Housecroft
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neuburger
authors.forename: Pirmin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rösel
mesh_terms: D015082:2,2'-Dipyridyl / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry; D056831:Coordination Complexes; D050091:Dendrimers / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D014994:Xylose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry; D017975:Ruthenium Compounds
chemical_list: D015082:2,2'-Dipyridyl; D056831:Coordination Complexes; D050091:Dendrimers; D014994:Xylose; C547232:tris(2,2-bipyridine)-ruthenium(II); D017975:Ruthenium Compounds; C431715:xylopyranose