Expanded ligands—An assembly principle for supramolecular chemistry

✍ Scribed by Edwin C. Constable

• Book ID: 104011001
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 966 KB
• Volume: 252
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2007.10.020

✦ Synopsis

Expanded ligands incorporate metal-containing groups as spacers between metal-binding domains. This article presents the principle and analyses expanded ligands based upon {M(tpy) 2 } (tpy = 2,2 :6 ,2 -terpyridine) scaffolds.