This work was supported by the European Research Council, the US Army Research Office, and the Marie Curie IIF Scheme of the 7th EU Framework Program. We thank the EPSRC Mass Spectrometry Service at Swansea for FT-ICR MS experiments, Dr. Peter Grice for help with NMR experiments, and the EPSRC National Crystallography Service and Dr. John E. Davis for crystallographic data collection.
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Transformative Binding and Release of Gold Guests from a Self-Assembled Cu8L4 Tube†
Article first published online: 17 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201108450
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How to Cite
Meng, W., Clegg, J. K. and Nitschke, J. R. (2012), Transformative Binding and Release of Gold Guests from a Self-Assembled Cu8L4 Tube. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51: 1881–1884. doi: 10.1002/anie.201108450
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 14 FEB 2012
- Article first published online: 17 JAN 2012
- Manuscript Received: 30 NOV 2011
Funded by
- European Research Council
- US Army Research Office
Keywords:
- coordination chemistry;
- host–guest systems;
- metal–organic capsules;
- self-assembly;
- supramolecular chemistry
Totally tubular: A linear M8L48+ receptor, which binds tightly and selectively to the dicyanoaurate anion, was assembled from simple organic subcomponents and copper(I) ions. The guest complex is not bound unchanged, but instead is transformed into a longer linear complex where two dicyanogold units are bridged by a central cation of copper/silver (see scheme). This complex optimally fills the cavity of the receptor but is not observed in the absence of the host.