Inherent helicity in an extended tris-bipyridyl molecular cage
- 20 November 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 2,p. 152-153
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b312716h
Abstract
A new molecular cage incorporating three bipyridyl units has been synthesised by a conventional multi-step procedure as well as, much more efficiently, by a Ni(II) template procedure; an X-ray structure of the nickel complex shows that it adopts an exo configuration of each of the bridgehead nitrogen lone pairs, the central metal ion acts to promote a triple helical twist that extends ∼22 Å along the axial length of the molecule.Keywords
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