title: Controllable Reassembly of a Dynamic Metallocage: From Thermodynamic Control to Kinetic Control.
abstract: A temperature- and anion-induced coordination-driven self-assembly system based on a dynamic Ag6L4metallocage was developed. Induced by SbF6-anions, both kinetically controlled [Ag3L2(SbF6)3]nand thermodynamically controlled [Ag2L2(SbF6)2]ncan be reassembled from discrete Ag6L4(SbF6)6metallocages at 30 °C, and increasing the temperature to 40 °C results in selective inhibition of the kinetic product. Under the influence of BF4-anions, dynamic Ag6L4(BF4)6metallocages self-assemble into the thermodynamically controlled polycage at 25 °C, and lowing the temperature to 0 °C leads to selective inhibition of the thermodynamic product. Thus, both kinetically and thermodynamically controlled assembly processes in a dynamic system can be selectively driven by suitable external stimuli.
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.
authors.forename: Luyao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
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.
authors.forename: Guangxun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lyu
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.
authors.forename: Caiping
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
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.
authors.forename: Feilong
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jiang
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.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 (China).
authors.forename: Daqiang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yuan
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.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 (China).
authors.forename: Qingfu
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Sun
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.
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhou
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.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 (China).
authors.forename: Qihui
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
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.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 (China).
authors.forename: Maochun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hong
keywords: cage compounds; catenanes; coordination polymers; self-assembly; silver