Organic Cage Dumbbells

Rebecca L Greenaway; Valentina Santolini; Filip T Szczypiński; Michael J Bennison; Marc A Little; Andrew Marsh; Kim E Jelfs; Andrew I Cooper

doi:10.1002/chem.201905623

Organic Cage Dumbbells

Chemistry. 2020 Mar 23;26(17):3718-3722. doi: 10.1002/chem.201905623. Epub 2020 Mar 3.

Authors

Rebecca L Greenaway¹, Valentina Santolini², Filip T Szczypiński², Michael J Bennison¹, Marc A Little¹, Andrew Marsh¹, Kim E Jelfs², Andrew I Cooper¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, 51 Oxford Street, Liverpool, L7 3NY, UK.
² Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, White City Campus, Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK.

PMID: 32011048
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905623

Abstract

Molecular dumbbells with organic cage capping units were synthesised via a multi-component imine condensation between a tri-topic amine and di- and tetra-topic aldehydes. This is an example of self-sorting, which can be rationalised by computational modelling.

Keywords: aldehydes; amines; cage compounds; imines; topology.

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