Topological control in paddlewheel metal-organic cages via ligand length variation

Steven Tsoukatos; Ashakiran Maibam; Ravichandar Babarao; Witold M Bloch

doi:10.1039/d4cc03769c

Topological control in paddlewheel metal-organic cages via ligand length variation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Nov 7;60(90):13183-13186. doi: 10.1039/d4cc03769c.

Authors

Steven Tsoukatos¹, Ashakiran Maibam², Ravichandar Babarao^{2

3}, Witold M Bloch¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, 5042, Australia. [email protected].
² School of Science, Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry (CAMIC), RMIT University, Melbourne, 3001 Victoria, Australia.
³ CSIRO, Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 39354805
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc03769c

Abstract

Varying the length of phenanthrene-derived ligands switches the selective assembly of MIInL_n metal-organic cages (MOCs, n = 6 or 8) between tetrahedral, square, or triangular architectures. The limit of this approach is explored for both Cu₂ and Rh₂ paddlewheel MOCs, and supported by solution, solid-state and computational analysis.