title: Facile route to an all-organic, triply threaded, interlocked structure by templated dynamic clipping.
abstract: Encaged! Three-terminal interlocked molecular species were obtained by dynamic (2+3) assembly of a cagelike macro-bicycle around a trifurcated trispyridinium π guest. The complex is stabilized by π-π interactions and multiple [C-H⋅⋅⋅O] and [C-H⋅⋅⋅N] interactions. Uncomplexed guest molecules cocrystallize alongside the threaded complexes in the solid state, thus giving extended π-stacked columns.
authors.affiliation: The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pun
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Hanifi
authors.forename: Gavin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kiel
authors.forename: Evan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu