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  • Title: Preferential formation of homochiral helical sandwich-shaped architectures through the metal-mediated assembly of tris(imidazoline) ligands with a set of d(3)-d(10) transition-metal ions.
    Author: Yan L, Wang Z, Chen MT, Wu N, Lan J, Gao X, You J, Gau HM, Chen CT.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2008; 14(36):11601-9. PubMed ID: 19016554.
    Abstract:
    A novel type of chiral tris-monodentate imidazolinyl ligands ((S,S,S)-4 and (R,R,R)-4) has been achieved in good yields. The ligands show a strong tendency to induce the generation of the discrete sandwich-shaped M(3)L(2) architectures with programmed helicity through the edge-directed complexation with a series of d(3)-d(10) transition-metal ions, while taking advantage of the steric hindrance of the bulky substituents of the imidazoline rings to avoid the formation of extended metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). In spite of different coordination geometries, monovalent metal ions (e.g. Ag(+)), divalent metal ions (e.g. Pd(2+), Cu(2+), Cd(2+), Zn(2+), Co(2+), Mn(2+), and Ni(2+)), and even trivalent metal ions (e.g. Fe(3+) and Cr(3+)) exhibit isostructural coordination. Installation of stereocenters fused onto the imidazoline rings results in favored handedness of the self-assemblies through the expression of molecular chirality into supramolecular helicity. In the crystal structures of [M(3){(S,S,S)-4}(2)], the self-assembly has to adopt the M form to relax the van der Waals repulsions of the phenyl and isopropyl groups. The replacement of (S,S,S)-4 with (R,R,R)-4 exclusively affords the opposite helicity (P). These results should provide important insights for the design of chiral helical capsule-like assemblies.
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