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Chemistry. 2015 Apr 20;21(17):6390-3. doi: 10.1002/chem.201500734. Epub 2015 Mar 10.

Solvent-free ball-milling subcomponent synthesis of metallosupramolecular complexes.

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

Chandan Giri, Prasit Kumar Sahoo, Rakesh Puttreddy, Kari Rissanen, Prasenjit Mal

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, Institute of Physics Campus, P.O. Sainik School, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751005 (India); University of Jyvaskyla, Department of Chemistry, Nanoscience Center, P.O. Box. 35, 40014 University of Jyvaskyla (Finland).

PMID: 25756211 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201500734

Abstract

Subcomponent self-assembly from components A, B, C, D, and Fe(2+) under solvent-free conditions by self-sorting leads to the construction of three structurally different metallosupramolecular iron(II) complexes. Under carefully selected ball-milling conditions, tetranuclear [Fe4 (AD2 )6 ](4-) 22-component cage 1, dinuclear [Fe2 (BD2 )3 ](2-) 11-component helicate 2, and 5-component mononuclear [Fe(CD3 )](2+) complex 3 were prepared simultaneously in a one-pot reaction from 38 components. Through subcomponent substitution reaction by adding subcomponent B, the [Fe4 (AD2 )6 ](4-) cage converts quantitatively to the [Fe2 (BD2 )3 ](2-) helicate, which, in turn, upon addition of subcomponent C, transforms to [Fe(CD3 )](2+) , following the hierarchical preference based on the thermodynamic stability of the complexes.

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Keywords: ball mill; dynamic imine chemistry; mechanochemistry; multicomponent synthesis; self-sorting; supramolecular chemistry

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