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Coordination Cages (coordination + cage)

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Copper(I) Cuboctahedral Coordination Cages: Host,Guest Dependent Redox Activity,

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE, Issue 33 2009
Qi-Ting He
Redoxaktiver Käfig: Mit einem dreieckigen Benzimidazol-Ligand wurden Cu+ -Koordinationskäfige aufgebaut, die einen kuboktaedrischen Hohlraum aufweisen und deren Redoxaktivität über das Gast-Anion abgestimmt werden kann. [source]

Self-Assembly of Nanosize Coordination Cages on Si(100) Surfaces

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 24 2007
Marco Busi Dr.
Abstract Bottom-up fabrication of 3D organic nanostructures on Si(100) surfaces has been achieved by a two-step procedure. Tetradentate cavitand 1 was grafted on the Si surface together with 1-octene (Oct) as a spatial spectator by photochemical hydrosilylation. Ligand exchange between grafted cavitand 1 and self-assembled homocage 2, derived from cavitand 5 bearing a fluorescence marker, led to the formation of coordination cages on Si(100). Formation, quantification, and distribution of the nanoscale molecular containers on a silicon surface was assessed by using three complementary analytical techniques (AFM, XPS, and fluorescence) and validated by control experiments on cavitand-free silicon surfaces. Interestingly, the fluorescence of pyrene at ,4,nm above the Si(100) surface can be clearly observed. [source]

Lanthanide(III) Complexes of 4,10-Bis(phosphonomethyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,7-diacetic acid (trans -H6do2a2p) in Solution and in the Solid State: Structural Studies Along the Series

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 28 2010
M. Paula
Abstract Complexes of 4,10-bis(phosphonomethyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,7-diacetic acid (trans -H6do2a2p, H6L) with transition metal and lanthanide(III) ions were investigated. The stability constant values of the divalent and trivalent metal-ion complexes are between the corresponding values of H4dota and H8dotp complexes, as a consequence of the ligand basicity. The solid-state structures of the ligand and of nine lanthanide(III) complexes were determined by X-ray diffraction. All the complexes are present as twisted-square-antiprismatic isomers and their structures can be divided into two series. The first one involves nona-coordinated complexes of the large lanthanide(III) ions (Ce, Nd, Sm) with a coordinated water molecule. In the series of Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Er, Yb, the complexes are octa-coordinated only by the ligand donor atoms and their coordination cages are more irregular. The formation kinetics and the acid-assisted dissociation of several LnIII,H6L complexes were investigated at different temperatures and compared with analogous data for complexes of other dota-like ligands. The [Ce(L)(H2O)]3, complex is the most kinetically inert among complexes of the investigated lanthanide(III) ions (Ce, Eu, Gd, Yb). Among mixed phosphonate,acetate dota analogues, kinetic inertness of the cerium(III) complexes is increased with a higher number of phosphonate arms in the ligand, whereas the opposite is true for europium(III) complexes. According to the 1H,NMR spectroscopic pseudo-contact shifts for the Ce,Eu and Tb,Yb series, the solution structures of the complexes reflect the structures of the [Ce(HL)(H2O)]2, and [Yb(HL)]2, anions, respectively, found in the solid state. However, these solution NMR spectroscopic studies showed that there is no unambiguous relation between 31P/1H lanthanide-induced shift (LIS) values and coordination of water in the complexes; the values rather express a relative position of the central ions between the N4 and O4 planes. [source]

Self-Assembly of Nanosize Coordination Cages on Si(100) Surfaces

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 24 2007
Marco Busi Dr.
Abstract Bottom-up fabrication of 3D organic nanostructures on Si(100) surfaces has been achieved by a two-step procedure. Tetradentate cavitand 1 was grafted on the Si surface together with 1-octene (Oct) as a spatial spectator by photochemical hydrosilylation. Ligand exchange between grafted cavitand 1 and self-assembled homocage 2, derived from cavitand 5 bearing a fluorescence marker, led to the formation of coordination cages on Si(100). Formation, quantification, and distribution of the nanoscale molecular containers on a silicon surface was assessed by using three complementary analytical techniques (AFM, XPS, and fluorescence) and validated by control experiments on cavitand-free silicon surfaces. Interestingly, the fluorescence of pyrene at ,4,nm above the Si(100) surface can be clearly observed. [source]