3D helical and 2D rhomboidal supramolecules: stepwise self-assembly and dynamic transformation of terpyridine-based metallo-architectures

Die Liu; Zhilong Jiang; Ming Wang; Xiaoyu Yang; Haisheng Liu; Mingzhao Chen; Charles N Moorefield; George R Newkome; Xiaopeng Li; Pingshan Wang

doi:10.1039/c6cc04482d

3D helical and 2D rhomboidal supramolecules: stepwise self-assembly and dynamic transformation of terpyridine-based metallo-architectures

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Jul 28;52(63):9773-6. doi: 10.1039/c6cc04482d.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan-410083, China. [email protected].
² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas-78666, USA. [email protected].
³ Departments of Polymer Science, Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, Department of Polymer Engineering and Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4717, USA.

PMID: 27414490
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc04482d

Abstract

A Ru(2+)-connected, metallo-organic ligand (L) with three free terpyridines was designed and synthesized. L was assembled with Zn(2+) to generate a helical structure; however, when mixing L with a 1,2,3-tristerpyridine ligand (T), a thermodynamically stable 2D rhombus was assembled. Furthermore, this 2D rhomboidal structure can also be achieved through the dynamic transformation of preassembled helix H with T and Zn(2+) at room temperature.