Controlling the secondary assembly of porous anionic uranyl-organic polyhedra through organic cationic templates

Li-Wen Zeng; Kong-Qiu Hu; Zhi-Wei Huang; Lei Mei; Xiang-He Kong; Kang Liu; Xiao-Lin Zhang; Zhi-Hui Zhang; Zhi-Fang Chai; Wei-Qun Shi

doi:10.1039/d1dt00289a

Controlling the secondary assembly of porous anionic uranyl-organic polyhedra through organic cationic templates

Dalton Trans. 2021 Apr 7;50(13):4499-4503. doi: 10.1039/d1dt00289a. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

Authors

Li-Wen Zeng¹, Kong-Qiu Hu, Zhi-Wei Huang, Lei Mei, Xiang-He Kong, Kang Liu, Xiao-Lin Zhang, Zhi-Hui Zhang, Zhi-Fang Chai, Wei-Qun Shi

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Nuclear Energy Chemistry, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. shiwq@ihep.ac.cn.

PMID: 33877170
DOI: 10.1039/d1dt00289a

Abstract

Herein, we report a new uranyl-organic polyhedron U₄L₄ (L = BTPCA) assembled from uranyl and a semirigid tritopic ligand. By adjusting the carbon chain length of organic templates, two complexes can be obtained based on the diverse secondary assembly of U₄L₄ cages. The mechanism of different arrangements of U₄L₄ cages induced by organic templates was explored in detail.