Template-free coordination-driven self-assembly of discrete hexanuclear prismatic cages employing half-sandwich octahedral Ru-2(II) acceptors and triimidazole donors

Adeyemo, Aderonke Ajibola and Shanmugaraju, Sankarasekaran and Samanta, Dipak and Mukherjee, Partha Sarathi (2016) Template-free coordination-driven self-assembly of discrete hexanuclear prismatic cages employing half-sandwich octahedral Ru-2(II) acceptors and triimidazole donors. In: INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA, 440 . pp. 62-68.

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Abstract

Coordination-driven self-assembly of dinuclear half-sandwich p-cymene ruthenium(II) complexes Ru-2(mu-eta(4)-C2O4)(CH3OH)(2)(eta(6)-p-cymene)(2)](O3SCF3)(2) (1a) and Ru-2(mu-eta(4)-C6H2O4)(CH3OH)(2)(eta(6)-p-cymene)(2)](O3SCF3)(2) (1b) separately with imidazole-based tritopic donors (L-1-L-2) in methanol yielded a series of hexanuclear 3+2] trigonal prismatic cages (2-5), respectively L-1 = 1,3,5-tris(imidazole-1-yl) benzene; L-2 = 4,4',4 `'-tris(imidazole-1-yl) triphenylamine]. All the self-assembled cages 2-5 were characterized by various spectroscopic techniques (multinuclear NMR, Infra-red and ESI-MS) and their sizes, shapes were obtained through geometry optimization using molecular mechanics universal force field (MMUFF) computation. Despite the possibility due to the free rotation of donor sites of imidazole ligands, of two different atropoisomeric prismatic cages (C-3h or C-s) and polymeric product, the self-selection of single (C(3)h) conformational isomeric cages as the only product is a noteworthy observation. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
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Keywords:	Self-assembly; p-Cymene ruthenium(II); Triimidazole donors; Supramolecular chemistry; Cages
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2016 05:51
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2016 05:51
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/53071

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