Coordination-driven self-assembly of discrete Ru₆–Pt₆ prismatic cages

• Aderonke Ajibola Adeyemo and
• Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2242–2249, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.199

• supramolecular chemistry leading to the formation of a single major product. Keywords: arene–ruthenium(II); heterometallic cages; platinum metalloligand; self-assembly; supramolecular architectures; Introduction Coordination-driven self-assembly of discrete architectures has evolved as a unique protocol to

• distribution patterns of the charged fragments. Energy-minimized structure of heterometallic trigonal prismatic cage 3a. Hydrogen atoms are omitted for the sake of clarity [Ru: green, Pt: pink, O: red, N: blue, P: orange, C: grey]. Self-assembly of the heterometallic prismatic cages. Synthesis of the platinum

• metalloligand 2. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 418: Experimental procedures, multinuclear NMR spectra data, ESIMS data and infrared spectra of the hexanuclear trigonal prismatic cages. Acknowledgements A.A.A. is grateful to IISc Bangalore for research fellowship. P.S.M. thanks the