title: Self-assembly of a supramolecular, three-dimensional, spoked, bicycle-like wheel.
abstract: Where there's a wheel, there's a way: The terpyridine-based title system has been synthesized through a facile self-assembly process. Two tris(terpyridine) ligands possessing angles of either 120° or 60° between adjacent tpy units were mixed with a stoichiometric amount of Zn(2+) (2:6:12) to generate the desired coordination-driven bicycle-like wheel (90 % yield).
authors.affiliation: Department of Polymer Science, Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 302 Buchtel Common, Akron, OH 44325, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaocun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Xiaopeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schultz
authors.forename: Jin-Liang
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Charles N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Moorefield
authors.forename: Chrys
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wesdemiotis
authors.forename: Stephen Z D
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: George R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Newkome
mesh_terms: D056831:Coordination Complexes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011725:Pyridines / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000378:metabolism; D015032:Zinc / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D056831:Coordination Complexes; D008024:Ligands; D011725:Pyridines; D015032:Zinc
keywords: N ligands; coordination modes; self-assembly; supramolecular chemistry; zinc