Adaptive coordination assemblies based on a flexible tetraazacyclododecane ligand for promoting carbon dioxide fixation

Abstract

Coordination hosts based on flexible ligands have received increasing attention due to their inherent adaptive cavities that often show induced-fit guest binding and catalysis like enzymes. Herein, we report the...

Pd12MnL24 (for n = 6, 8, 12) nanospheres by post-assembly modification of Pd12L24 spheres

“…Whereas most nanospheres reported are based on one type of metal center for the construction of the structure, supramolecular nanospheres bearing two different metals also emerged quite recently. [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] Construction of bimetallic Archimedean solids has been mainly achieved by using non-symmetrical linkers, 26 with preferred coordination to the corresponding two different metals used during the assembly process. In a typical procedure, the non-symmetrical building block is rst coordinated to the rst metal, obtaining a metal complex as the building block that is used in the next step for the formation of supramolecular nanospheres.…”