Coordination assemblies from a Pd(II)-cornered square complex

Makoto Fujita; Masahide Tominaga; Akiko Hori; Bruno Therrien

doi:10.1021/ar040153h

Coordination assemblies from a Pd(II)-cornered square complex

Acc Chem Res. 2005 Apr;38(4):369-78. doi: 10.1021/ar040153h.

Authors

Makoto Fujita¹, Masahide Tominaga, Akiko Hori, Bruno Therrien

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.

PMID: 15835883
DOI: 10.1021/ar040153h

Abstract

The [enPd(II)]2+ (en = ethylenediamine) unit has emerged as a versatile building block in molecular self-assembly. In particular, the 90 degrees coordination angle of the metal has been judiciously used in the design of new discrete two- and three-dimensional structures. Our last 15 years of work with the Pd(II)-cornered unit is summarized in this Account, from the spontaneous formation of a Pd4 square metal complex to a family of architectures such as cages, bowls, boxes, tubes, catenanes, and spheres.