A family of substituted benzimidazolyl-based tripodal molecules with alkyl substituted spacers was synthesized, showing perfect symmetric cyclic aromatic trimer motifs which remained intact in the solid as well as solution state.
A synthetic approach for assembling an aromatic cyclic trimer into a tripodal molecule was achieved.
Neutral, stable and luminescent metallacycles decorated with furan units, a 2D rectangle with four furans and a 3D trigonal prism with six furans, were synthesized from readily accessible starting materials through a fac-Re(CO)3-directed approach.
Bridgeless double metallocalix[4]arenes possessing two orthogonally arranged dinuclear cavitands were obtained from Re2(CO)10, rigid bis-chelating units, and a flexible bis-ditopic N-donor by a one-pot approach.
A semirigid ligand, 1,4-bis(2-nonylbenzimidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene (Nbenzbix), containing a long alkyl chain substituted stator and a rotating unit was designed and synthesized. Three dinuclear metallacycles [(Re(CO)3)(µ-L)(µ-Nbenzbix)(Re(CO)3)] (1, H2-L =...
A one-pot, multicomponent, coordination-driven self-assembly approach was used to synthesize the first examples of neutral bridging phosphine oxide donor-based supramolecular coordination complexes. The complexes were self-assembled from a fac-Re(CO)3 ...
Flexible hexatopic ligands, 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexakis(1H-naphtho[2,3-d]imidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene (L2) and 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexakis(4,5-diphenylimidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene (L3), containing six neutral naphthanoimidazolyl and 4,5-diphenylimidazolyl N donors were ...
Spheroid metallocavitands [((Re(CO)3L)3)2L'] with a diameter of ~17 Å, possessing eight solvent-accessible calixarene-shaped receptors on the surface, were obtained from a Re2(CO)10, rigid NN donors (H-L), and flexible hexatopic N donors (L') in a one-...
The semirigid ligands 1,4-bis(2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)benzimidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene (H2-pBC) and 1,3-bis(2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)benzimidazol-1-ylmethyl)-2,4,6-trimethylbenzene (H2-mBC), containing two hydroxyphenylbenzimidazolyl units as bis-chelating (or bis(...
