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Chemical Communications

Conformation driven in situ interlock: from discrete metallocycles to infinite polycatenanes†

Hui Xue,ab   Feilong Jiang,a   Qihui Chen,*a   Daqiang Yuan, ORCID logo a   Jiandong Pang,ab   Guangxun Lv,ab   Xiuyan Wan,ab   Linfeng Liangab  and  Maochun Hong*a  

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a State Key Laboratory of Structure Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. China
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b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

A novel conformation driven self-assembly system, where four metallocycles with different conformations have been in situ self-assembled, has been reported. Interestingly, only square metallocycles can further interlock into polycatenanes. However, rectangular and rhombus metallocycles fail to overcome such an entropically unfavourable process, which constitutes an obstacle to the formation of polycatenanes.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC04854K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Jun 2015
Accepted
20 Jul 2015
First published
21 Jul 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 13706-13709

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Conformation driven in situ interlock: from discrete metallocycles to infinite polycatenanes

H. Xue, F. Jiang, Q. Chen, D. Yuan, J. Pang, G. Lv, X. Wan, L. Liang and M. Hong, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 13706 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC04854K

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