title: Catenation of Homochiral Metal-Organic Nanocages or Nanotubes.
abstract: Catenation based on homochiral metal-organic nanocages or nanotubes is realized in this work for the first time. A flexible enantiopure ligand is employed to assemble metal ions, with the structure-directing effect of an auxiliary ligand, a triangular-prism-like nanocage, and a nanotube successfully built. Further 0D → 3D catenation is achieved by interlocking the nanocages, and 1D → 3D catenation based on nanotubes is also presented. This work reveals extraordinary catenating architectures from molecular cages and tubes.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Zhong-Xuan
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang