Chemical Communications

Imitating micelles as a way to control coordination self-assembly: cage-polymer switching directed rationally by solvent polarity or pH

N Giri, SL James

Index: Giri, Nicola; James, Stuart L. Chemical Communications, 2011 , vol. 47, # 5 p. 1458 - 1460

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Abstract

Disguising a metal complex as a micelle by using amphiphilic phosphine ligands enables it to switch between a coordination polymer and a discrete cage in response to solvent polarity or pH; this medium-dependent behaviour of the complex is rational because it parallels that of true micelles.