title: 3D helical and 2D rhomboidal supramolecules: stepwise self-assembly and dynamic transformation of terpyridine-based metallo-architectures.
abstract: A Ru(2+)-connected, metallo-organic ligand (L) with three free terpyridines was designed and synthesized. L was assembled with Zn(2+) to generate a helical structure; however, when mixing L with a 1,2,3-tristerpyridine ligand (T), a thermodynamically stable 2D rhombus was assembled. Furthermore, this 2D rhomboidal structure can also be achieved through the dynamic transformation of preassembled helix H with T and Zn(2+) at room temperature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan-410083, China. chemwps@csu.edu.cn.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan-410083, China. chemwps@csu.edu.cn.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas-78666, USA. x_l8@txstate.edu.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan-410083, China. chemwps@csu.edu.cn.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan-410083, China. chemwps@csu.edu.cn.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan-410083, China. chemwps@csu.edu.cn.
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authors.affiliation: Departments of Polymer Science, Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, Department of Polymer Engineering and Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4717, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Departments of Polymer Science, Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, Department of Polymer Engineering and Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4717, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas-78666, USA. x_l8@txstate.edu.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan-410083, China. chemwps@csu.edu.cn.
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