Cover Feature: Plenates: Anion‐Dependent Self‐Assembly of the Pyrrole Cage Encapsulating Silver(I) Clusters (Chem. Eur. J. 12/2023)

Abstract

The self‐assembly of 2,5‐diformylpyrrole, tris(2‐aminoethyl)amine, and silver(I) yielded a series of new cascade complexes or plenates, that is, cryptates incorporating Agnn+ clusters. The tripyrrolic cage is represented by a wooden chest hiding the treasure, which in the case of plenates, contains a pile of shiny silver atoms. In contrast, for cascade complexes, two precious metals lie next to anions shown as colorful gems. Obviously, such treasure cannot remain unprotected… More information can be found in the Research Article by B. Szyszko and co‐workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203850).

Iminopyrrole‐Based Self‐Assembly: A Route to Intrinsically Flexible Molecular Links and Knots

“…Furthermore, installing such a moiety within the metal-organic MIM framework would translate into the flexible behaviour of the assembly. Eventually, it was realised that such functionality could be acquired by using diiminopyrrole ligands, which were earlier used to construct molecular cages [78][79][80] and macrocyclic compounds. [81][82][83][84][85] A comparison of 1 and diiminopyrrole 2 reveals subtle but significant geometric differences (Scheme 1A).…”