title: Conformation driven in situ interlock: from discrete metallocycles to infinite polycatenanes.
abstract: A novel conformation driven self-assembly system, where four metallocycles with different conformations have been in situ self-assembled, has been reported. Interestingly, only square metallocycles can further interlock into polycatenanes. However, rectangular and rhombus metallocycles fail to overcome such an entropically unfavourable process, which constitutes an obstacle to the formation of polycatenanes.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structure Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. hmc@fjirsm.ac.cn chenqh@fjirsm.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Feilong
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Qihui
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Daqiang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Jiandong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Guangxun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Xiuyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.forename: Linfeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Maochun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hong