Self-assembly of metallosupramolecular rhombi from chiral concave 9,9’-spirobifluorene-derived bis(pyridine) ligands

• Rainer Hovorka,
• Sophie Hytteballe,
• Torsten Piehler,
• Georg Meyer-Eppler,
• Filip Topić,
• Kari Rissanen,
• Marianne Engeser and
• Arne Lützen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 432–441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.40

• ] in order to learn more about the underlying principles of chiral self-sorting in metallosupramolecular chemistry. Results and Discussion Synthesis The synthesis of the spirobifluorene-based templates is shown in Scheme 1. It started from 2-aminobiphenyl following the established procedures of J. M

Impact of the level of complexity in self-sorting: Fabrication of a supramolecular scalene triangle

• Kingsuk Mahata and
• Michael Schmittel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1555–1561, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.183

• various scalene triangles. It turned out that the self-sorting system with a higher level of complexity was far superior to less complex sorting algorithms. Keywords: copper; metallosupramolecular chemistry; phenanthroline; self-assembly; self-sorting; Introduction Self-assembly guided by self-sorting