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SUBMITTER: Campbell CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4502974 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campbell Christopher J CJ Leigh David A DA Vitorica-Yrezabal Inigo J IJ Woltering Steffen L SL
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20141014 50
A [2]rotaxane was produced through the assembly of a picolinaldehyde, an amine, and a bipyridine macrocycle around a Cu(I) template by imine bond formation in close-to-quantitative yield. An analogous [3]rotaxane is obtained in excellent yield by replacing the amine with a diamine, thus showing the suitability of the system for the construction of higher order interlocked structures. The rotaxanes are formed within a few minutes simply through mixing the components in solution at room temperatur ...[more]