A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages
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Abrahams, Brendan F., Boughton, Berin A., FitzGerald, Nicholas J., Holmes, Jessica L. and Robson, Richard (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: | © 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry |
| URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/56530 |
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