Ultra-large supramolecular coordination cages composed of endohedral Archimedean and Platonic bodies

Pioneered by Lehn, Cram, Peterson and Breslow, supramolecular chemistry concepts have evolved providing fundamental knowledge of the relationships between the structures and reactivities of organized molecules. A particular fascinating class of metallo-supramolecular molecules are hollow coordinatio...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature communications 2017-05, Vol.8 (1), p.15268-9, Article 15268
Hauptverfasser: Byrne, Kevin, Zubair, Muhammad, Zhu, Nianyong, Zhou, Xiao-Ping, Fox, Daniel S., Zhang, Hongzhou, Twamley, Brendan, Lennox, Matthew J., Düren, Tina, Schmitt, Wolfgang
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Zusammenfassung:Pioneered by Lehn, Cram, Peterson and Breslow, supramolecular chemistry concepts have evolved providing fundamental knowledge of the relationships between the structures and reactivities of organized molecules. A particular fascinating class of metallo-supramolecular molecules are hollow coordination cages that provide cavities of molecular dimensions promoting applications in diverse areas including catalysis, enzyme mimetics and material science. Here we report the synthesis of coordination cages with exceptional cross-sectional diameters that are composed of multiple sub-cages providing numerous distinctive binding sites through labile coordination solvent molecules. The building principles, involving Archimedean and Platonic bodies, renders these supramolecular keplerates as a class of cages whose composition and topological aspects compare to characteristics of edge-transitive {Cu 2 } MOFs with A 3 X 4 stoichiometry. The nature of the cavities in these double-shell metal-organic polyhedra and their inner/outer binding sites provide perspectives for post-synthetic functionalizations, separations and catalysis. Transmission electron microscopy studies demonstrate that single molecules are experimentally accessible. Host–guest chemistry in hollow coordination cages can be exploited for a range of applications, but is often limited by inner cavity dimensions. Here, Schmitt and co-workers fabricate supramolecular keplerates that possess ultra-large cross-sectional diameters and are composed of multiple sub-cages.
ISSN:2041-1723
2041-1723
DOI:10.1038/ncomms15268