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SUBMITTER: Wise MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811078 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical science 20141111 2
Ditopic N-donor ligands with terminal 4-pyridyl groups are omnipresent in coordination-based self-assembly. The utilization of ligands with 3-pyridyl donor groups is significantly less common, because the intrinsic conformational flexibility of these ligands tends to favor the formation of small aggregates. Here, we show that large Pd<sub>6</sub>L<sub>12</sub><sup>12+</sup> cages can be obtained by reaction of Pd(ii) salts with metallo-ligands L bearing terminal 3-pyridyl groups. The easy-to-acc ...[more]