Two Types of Water-Soluble Supramolecular Polyhedron by Self-Assembly of Trimeric Zinc(II) Complexes.

Accession number;02A0304359
Title;Two Types of Water-Soluble Supramolecular Polyhedron by Self-Assembly of Trimeric Zinc(II) Complexes.
Author; AOKI SHIN (Hiroshima Univ., Sch. of Med.) SHIRO MOTOO (Rigaku Corp., X-ray Res. Lab., JPN) KIMURA EIICHI (Hiroshima Univ., Sch. of Med.)
Journal Title;Abstracts. Symposium on Biofunctional Chemistry
Journal Code:L0836A
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VOL.16th;NO.;PAGE.6-7(2001)
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Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Two types of three-dimensional supramolecular complexes are formed by reversible self-assembly of trimeric zinc(II) complexes (Zn3L) with trianionic trithiocyanuric acid (TCA3-) in aqueous solution at neutral pH. The first is a supramolecular cage, which is formed by 4:4 complexation of Zn3L with TCA3-, is represented by a cuboctahedron, having an inner cavity depicted as a twisted truncated tetrahedron. It was discovered that the supramolecular cage is capable of encapsulating organic guest molecules such as adamantane and tetrapropylammonium cation. On the other hand, 3:3 assembly of linear Zn3L with TCA3- yields the second supramolecular complex, whose structure is represented as a trigonal prism. (author abst.)