Assembly of Six Types of Heteroleptic Pd₂L₄ Cages under Kinetic Control.

ABSTRACT: Heteroleptic assemblies composed of several kinds of building blocks have been seen in nature. It is still unclear how natural systems design and create such complicated assemblies selectively. Past efforts on multicomponent self-assembly of artificial metal-organic cages have mainly focused on finding a suitable combination of building blocks to lead to a single multicomponent self-assembly as the thermodynamically most stable product. Here, we present another approach to selectively produce multicomponent Pd(II)-based self-assemblies under kinetic control based on the selective ligand exchanges of weak Pd-L coordination bonds retaining the original orientation of the metal centers in a kinetically stabilized cyclic structure and on local reversibility given in certain areas of the energy

SUBMITTER: Abe T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755705 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature