Ligand-Directed Template Assembly for the Construction of Gigantic Molybdenum Blue Wheels.

ABSTRACT: Template-mediated synthesis is a powerful approach to build a variety of functional materials and complex supramolecular systems. However, the systematic study of how templates structurally evolve from basic building blocks, and then affect the templated self-assembly, is critical to understanding and utilizing the underlying mechanism, to work towards designed assembly. Here we describe the templated self-assembly of a series of gigantic Mo Blue (MB) clusters 1-4 using l-ornithine as a structure-directing ligand. We show that by using l-ornithine as a structure director, we can form new template⊂host assemblies. Based on the structural relationship between encapsulated templates of {Mo₈ } (1), {Mo₁₇ } (2) and {Mo₃₆ } (4), a pathway of the structural evolut

SUBMITTER: Xuan W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771582 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature