Discrete Rectangles,Prisms, and Heterometallic Cages from a Conjugated Cp*Rh‐Based Building Block |
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| Authors: | Xu‐Yu Shen Dr. Ying‐Ying Zhang Long Zhang Dr. Yue‐Jian Lin Prof. Guo‐Xin Jin |
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| Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan road, Shanghai, 200433 (P.R. China) |
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| Abstract: | By carefully selecting an existing synthetic strategy and suitable coordination subunits, constructing desired coordination geometries is no longer that difficult to accomplish. Herein, a new strategy to construct a series of unprecedented structures by using conjugated Cp*Rh‐based complex BN‐OTf (Cp*=η5‐C5Me5) as the building block is proposed. DFT calculations revealed extensive delocalized π bonds in the subunit. With BN‐OTf , rectangular macrocycles TN‐bpy and TN‐bpe were controllably synthesized. Single‐crystal XRD studies confirmed one‐dimensional stacking channels for the tetranuclear structure. Notably, the starting ligand imidazole‐4,5‐dicarboxylate was found to act not only as a tetradentate but also as a hexadentate ligand that can coordinate to further metal ions. Subsequently, [4 Rh+1 M] heterometallic complexes HMZ (M=Cu and Zn) were accessed by chelating borderline hard/soft Lewis acids. With TN‐Linker or HMZ , two routes resulted in the [8 Rh+2 M] heterometallic cages HMC (M=Cu and Zn) with excellent crystallinity and stability. Surprisingly, when BN‐OTf bonded to rhodium itself, triangular prisms TP‐Linker were obtained with high solubility after being linked by bipyridine linkers. Both the X‐ray structure and 1H NMR spectrum confirmed the novel isomerization of the triangular structures. All of the compounds were obtained in high yields and were fully characterized by 1H NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, and in most cases single‐crystal X‐ray structure determination. |
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| Keywords: | cage compounds heterometallic complexes macrocycles rhodium supramolecular chemistry |
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