A heterobimetallic tetrahedron from a linear platinum(II)-bis(acetylide) metalloligand.

ABSTRACT: Employing 4-ethynylaniline as a simple organic ligand we were able to prepare the stable trans-bis(acetylide)platinum(II) complex [Pt(L¹)₂(PBu₃)₂] as a linear metalloligand. The reaction of this metalloligand with iron(II) cations and pyridine-2-carbaldehyde according to the subcomponent self-assembly approach yielded decanuclear heterobimetallic tetrahedron [Fe₄Pt₆(L²)₁₂](OTf)₈. Thus, combination of these two design concepts - the subcomponent self-assembly strategy and the complex-as-a-ligand approach - ensured a fast and easy synthesis of large heterobimetallic coordination cages of tetrahedral shape with a diameter of more than 3 nm as a mixture of all three possible T-,

SUBMITTER: Hardy M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7653331 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature