Self-Assembly of Porphyrin-Based Metallacages into Octahedra
Yan Sun, Chongyi Chen, Jianbo Liu, Lizhe Liu, Wei Tuo, Huangtianzhi Zhu, Shuai Lu, Xiaopeng Li, Peter J. Stang
Abstract
Despite rapid progress in recent years, it has remained challenging to prepare well-defined metal-organic complex-based suprastructures. As a result, the physicochemical mechanisms leading to their geometrical complexity remain perplexing. Here, a porphyrin-based metallacage was used as a building block to construct octahedra via self-assembly, and the mechanism for the evolution of the metallacages into octahedra was disclosed by both experiments and theoretical simulations.
Topics & Concepts
ChemistryOctahedronPorphyrinConstruct (python library)Mechanism (biology)Block (permutation group theory)Self-assemblyCrystallographyCrystal structurePhotochemistryOrganic chemistryCombinatoricsComputer sciencePhysicsMathematicsProgramming languageQuantum mechanicsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsSupramolecular Chemistry and ComplexesLuminescence and Fluorescent Materials