Metallaoctahedron Derived from the Self-Assembly of Tetranuclear Metal-Organic Ligands

Zhiyuan Jiang; Tun Wu; Shi-Cheng Wang; Mingzhao Chen; He Zhao; Yi-Tsu Chan; Pingshan Wang

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02619

Metallaoctahedron Derived from the Self-Assembly of Tetranuclear Metal-Organic Ligands

Inorg Chem. 2019 Jan 7;58(1):35-38. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02619. Epub 2018 Dec 20.

Authors

Zhiyuan Jiang¹, Tun Wu², Shi-Cheng Wang³, Mingzhao Chen¹, He Zhao¹, Yi-Tsu Chan³, Pingshan Wang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Central South University (CSU) , Changsha , Hunan 410083 , China.
² Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay , Guangzhou University , Guangzhou 510006 , China.
³ Department of Chemistry , National Taiwan University , Number 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road , Taipei 10617 , Taiwan.

PMID: 30570253
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02619

Abstract

Construction of 3D terpyridine-based metallopolyhedra remains challenging because of the linear coordination geometry of ⟨tpy-M^II-tpy⟩ connectivity. A progressive strategy is made by assembling tetranuclear terpyridyl metal-organic ligands to afford a novel regular octahedron, whose structure was established by NMR, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, traveling-wave ion-mobility mass spectrometry, atomic force microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. This strategy provides an efficient method for the construction of 3D terpyridine-based metallopolyhedra.