Abstract:
:Self-assembled polyhedral structures are common in biology. The coats of many viruses, for example, have a structure based on icosahedral symmetry. The preparation of synthetic polyhedral molecular assemblies represents a challenging problem, but supramolecular chemistry has now advanced to the point where the task may be addressed. Macromolecular and supramolecular entities of predefined geometric shape and with well-defined internal environments are potentially important for inclusion phenomena, molecular recognition and catalysis. Here we report the use of self-assembly of molecular units driven by coordination to transition-metal ions to prepare a cuboctahedron from 20 tridentate and bidentate subunits in a single step. The cuboctahedron is an archimedean semiregular polyhedron that combines square and triangular faces. Our self-assembled polyhedral capsules, characterized by NMR and electrospray mass spectrometry, are around 5 nanometres in diameter.
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Naturejournal_title
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Olenyuk B,Whiteford JA,Fechtenkötter A,Stang PJdoi
10.1038/19740keywords:
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1999-04-29 00:00:00pages
796-9issue
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0028-0836issn
1476-4687journal_volume
398pub_type
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