Dondorff rings: synthesis, isolation, and properties of 60°-directed bisterpyridine-based folded tetramers.
Square feat: The synthesis, isolation, and characterization of five novel bisterpyridine-based metallomacrocycles, possessing a folded tetrameric configuration is reported (see figure). The initial dimeric building block with the stable linear {tpy-Ru(II)-tpy} connectivity circumvents the formation of the thermodynamically favored molecular triangles.
Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4717, USA.
Anthony
A
Schultz
Xiaopeng
X
Li
Catherine E
CE
McCusker
Charles N
CN
Moorefield
Felix N
FN
Castellano
Chrys
C
Wesdemiotis
George R
GR
Newkome
D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D011725:Pyridines / Q000737:chemistry*; D012428:Ruthenium / Q000737:chemistry*
D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D011725:Pyridines; D012428:Ruthenium; C023666:pyridine