Pinching pacman! Switching between the "open" and "closed" arrangements of pacman-like bisporphyrin architectures can be achieved by redox control of noncovalent interactions (see figure). The open/close molecular motion, triggered by reduction of π-dimerizable bipyridinium units, has been shown to allow the complexation of a bidentate ligand pinched between both metalloporphyrins.
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