title: Metal-coordination-driven mixed ligand binding in supramolecular bisporphyrin tweezers.
abstract: Mg(II)bisporphyrin has been used as an efficient host for the selective binding of guest ligands. In the presence of heterogeneous guest pairs, 2-aminopyrimidine/pyrazine and 2-aminopyrimidine/1,4-dioxane, 2-aminopyrimidine is bound selectively inside the bisporphyrin cavity whereas pyrazine/1,4-dioxane is bound outside to produce 1D mixed ligand polymers. UV-vis, (1)H NMR spectra and X-ray structure confirm such a selective and orthogonal binding of the guest ligands. The mixed ligand polymer has been synthesized just by mixing the host and guests in one pot and easily isolated as a solid in nearly quantitative yield due to its high stability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India. sprath@iitk.ac.in.
authors.forename: Sk Asif
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ikbal
authors.forename: Avinash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dhamija
authors.forename: Sankar Prasad
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Rath