18 Supramolecular coordination chemistry

Strategies for the Construction of Supramolecular Compounds through Coordination Chemistry

“…Two review articles of supramolecular coordination chemistry, its progress, and future directions have been recently published by Ward [152] and Andrews and Raston. Two review articles of supramolecular coordination chemistry, its progress, and future directions have been recently published by Ward [152] and Andrews and Raston.…”

A novel bipyridine-based hexadentate tripodal framework with a strong preference for trigonal prismatic co-ordination geometries

“…4) can be co-ordinated to tetrahedral Ag I to give trinuclear species, 22 Zn II and Mn II to give tetrameric [M 4 L 4 ] 4+ octahedral complexes 23 or with Co II to give the monomeric trigonal prismatic species, [Co(Tp py )][PF 6 ]. [24][25][26] The ligand in this instance naturally adopts a trigonal prismatic conformation, furthermore simple molecular modelling studies have indicated that the formation of an octahedral geometry in a 1 : 1 metal to ligand complex would cause significant ligand strain. The work presented in this paper describes the co-ordination chemistry of a rigid hexadentate tripodal ligand, tris(2,2¢-bipyrid-6-yl)methanol (L 1 ; Fig.…”

Dendrimers and supramolecular chemistry

“…In contrast, purity and structural uniformity are harder to maintain in the divergent approach, because the number of reactions that must be completed at each step of growth increases exponentially requiring large excesses of reagents, but the process is better suited not only for syntheses on a larger scale but also for the preparation of high-generation dendrimers. Although the majority of the dendrimers prepared to-date have been built of covalent bonds (3,10), many noncovalent dendrimers (3,11) have also been prepared by a variety of selfassembly processes involving, for example, hydrogen bonding (12) or supramolecular coordination chemistry (13).…”