A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages
Abrahams, B.F., Boughton, B.A.ORCID: 0000-0001-6342-9814, FitzGerald, N.J., Holmes, J.L. and Robson, R.
(2011)
A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages.
Chemical Communications, 47
(26).
pp. 7404-7406.
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Abstract
The combination of six Cu(II) centres with four cyclotricatechylene (ctc6−) ligands generates large (Cu6ctc4)12− cages with the topology of the tetrahedron. The anionic tetrahedral cages are cemented together, triangular face to triangular face, by Na+ cations together with water molecules to generate a highly symmetric diamond-like assembly (space group Fd-3m, the same as that of diamond itself) whose adamantane-like units have an iodide ion at the centre of every cyclohexane-like face.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
Copyright: | © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2011 |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/56487 |
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