Selective Co-Encapsulation Inside an M₆ L₄ Cage.

ABSTRACT: There is broad interest in molecular encapsulation as such systems can be utilized to stabilize guests, facilitate reactions inside a cavity, or give rise to energy-transfer processes in a confined space. Detailed understanding of encapsulation events is required to facilitate functional molecular encapsulation. In this contribution, it is demonstrated that Ir and Rh-Cp-type metal complexes can be encapsulated inside a self-assembled M₆ L₄ metallocage only in the presence of an aromatic compound as a second guest. The individual guests are not encapsulated, suggesting that only the pair of guests can fill the void of the cage. Hence, selective co-encapsulation is observed. This principle is demonstrated by co-encapsulation of a variety of combinations of metal complex

SUBMITTER: Leenders SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096245 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature