A 3D Interlocked Structure from a 2D Template: Structural Requirements for the Assembly of a Square??Planar Metal??Coordinated [2] Rotaxane

…, IDH Oswald, S Parsons, DB Walker

Index: Fuller, Anne-Marie; Leigh, David A.; Lusby, Paul J.; Oswald, Iain D. H.; Parsons, Simon; Walker, D. Barney Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2004 , vol. 43, # 30 p. 3914 - 3918

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Abstract

The starting point for the revolution in catenane and rotaxane synthesis that occurred during the last part of the 20th century was the realization by Sauvage and co-workers that metal– ligand coordination geometries could fix molecular fragments in three-dimensional space such that they were predisposed to form mechanically interlocked architectures through macrocyclization or “stoppering” reactions.[1] Efficient synthetic methods to rotaxanes ...