CO2 as a reaction ingredient for the construction of metal cages: a carbonate-panelled [Gd6Cu3] tridiminished icosahedron

Thomas N Hooper; Ross Inglis; Maria A Palacios; Gary S Nichol; Mateusz B Pitak; Simon J Coles; Giulia Lorusso; Marco Evangelisti; Euan K Brechin

doi:10.1039/c4cc00141a

CO2 as a reaction ingredient for the construction of metal cages: a carbonate-panelled [Gd6Cu3] tridiminished icosahedron

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Apr 4;50(26):3498-500. doi: 10.1039/c4cc00141a. Epub 2014 Feb 20.

Authors

Thomas N Hooper¹, Ross Inglis, Maria A Palacios, Gary S Nichol, Mateusz B Pitak, Simon J Coles, Giulia Lorusso, Marco Evangelisti, Euan K Brechin

Affiliation

¹ EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3JJ, UK. ebrechin@staffmail.ed.ac.uk.

PMID: 24557013
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc00141a

Abstract

A CO3(2-)-panelled [Gd(III)6Cu(II)3] cage conforming to a tridiminished icosahedron is synthesised by bubbling CO2 through a solution of Gd(III) and Cu(II) ions.