Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.126, No.50, 16569-16574, 2004
Ambidentate pyridyl-carboxylate ligands in the coordination-driven self-assembly of 2D Pt macrocycles: Self-selection for a single isomer
The coordination-driven self-assembly of discrete 2D macrocyclic species from ambidentate pyridyi-carboxylate-based donor ligands and platinum-containing acceptors is presented. All these species are characterized by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESIMS), multinuclear NMR, and in one example, X-ray crystallography. In each case only one isomeric assembly is selectively formed in high yield, despite the potential for more than one product as a consequence of differences in connectivity.