Metal–Ligand Exchange in a Cyclic Array: The Stepwise Advancement of Supramolecular Complexity

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• 作者：Manik Lal Saha ; Michael Schmittel
• 刊名：Inorganic Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 5, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：55
• 期：23
• 页码：12366-12375
• 全文大小：653K
• ISSN：1520-510X

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Herein, we demonstrate how the supramolecular complexity (evaluated by the degree of self-sorting M) evolves in a chemical cycle of cascaded metallosupramolecular transformations, using abiological self-assembled entities as input signals. Specifically, the successive addition of the supramolecular self-assembled structures S1 and (T2 + S2) to the starting supramolecular two-component equilateral triangle T1 (M = 1) first induced a fusion into the three-component quadrilateral R1 (M = 6) and then to the five-component scalene triangle T3 (M = 16). Upon the addition of the supramolecular input M1 to T3, a notable self-sorting event occurred, leading to regeneration of the triangle T1 along with formation of the scalene triangle T4 (M = 25). This last step closed the cycle of the supramolecular transformations.