Palladium(II) driven self-assembly of a saturated quadruple-stranded metallo helicate.
Complexation of the bridging bidentate ligand N,N'-(pyridine-2,6-diyl)dinicotinamide, L with palladium(II) resulted in a single discrete M(2)L(4) self-assembly, 1, in a quantitative manner. The entropically-controlled assembly of 1 resulted in a rare saturated, quadruple-stranded metallo-helicate, in which both the left-handed (M) and right-handed (P) helicates exist in the crystal structure.
Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
Debakanta
D
Tripathy
Amlan K
AK
Pal
Garry S
GS
Hanan
Dillip Kumar
DK
Chand