TY - JOUR
T1 - A Double-Walled Tetrahedron with AgI4 Vertices Binds Different Guests in Distinct Sites**
AU - Clark, Samuel E.
AU - Heard, Andrew W.
AU - McTernan, Charlie T.
AU - Ronson, Tanya K.
AU - Rossi, Barbara
AU - Rozhin, Petr
AU - Marchesan, Silvia
AU - Nitschke, Jonathan R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
PY - 2023/4/11
Y1 - 2023/4/11
N2 - A double-walled tetrahedral metal-organic cage assembled in solution from silver(I), 2-formyl-1,8-naphthyridine, halide, and a threefold-symmetric triamine. The AgI4X clusters at its vertices each bring together six naphthyridine-imine moieties, leading to a structure in which eight tritopic ligands bridge four clusters in an (AgI4X)4L8 arrangement. Four ligands form an inner set of tetrahedron walls that are surrounded by the outer four. The cage has significant interior volume, and was observed to bind anionic guests. The structure also possesses external binding clefts, located at the edges of the cage, which bound small aromatic guests. Halide ions bound to the silver clusters were observed to exchange in a well-defined hierarchy, allowing modulation of the cavity volume. The principles uncovered here may allow for increasingly more sophisticated cages with silver-cluster vertex architectures, with post-assembly tuning of the interior cavity volume enabling targeted binding behavior.
AB - A double-walled tetrahedral metal-organic cage assembled in solution from silver(I), 2-formyl-1,8-naphthyridine, halide, and a threefold-symmetric triamine. The AgI4X clusters at its vertices each bring together six naphthyridine-imine moieties, leading to a structure in which eight tritopic ligands bridge four clusters in an (AgI4X)4L8 arrangement. Four ligands form an inner set of tetrahedron walls that are surrounded by the outer four. The cage has significant interior volume, and was observed to bind anionic guests. The structure also possesses external binding clefts, located at the edges of the cage, which bound small aromatic guests. Halide ions bound to the silver clusters were observed to exchange in a well-defined hierarchy, allowing modulation of the cavity volume. The principles uncovered here may allow for increasingly more sophisticated cages with silver-cluster vertex architectures, with post-assembly tuning of the interior cavity volume enabling targeted binding behavior.
KW - Metal Clusters
KW - Metal-Organic Cages
KW - Self-Assembly
KW - Supramolecular Chemistry
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U2 - 10.1002/anie.202301612
DO - 10.1002/anie.202301612
M3 - Article
C2 - 36815728
AN - SCOPUS:85149824206
SN - 1433-7851
VL - 62
JO - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
JF - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
IS - 16
M1 - e202301612
ER -