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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 145, Issue 35, Pages 19164-19170Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c04228
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A trigonal prismatic cage containing anthracene-centered ligands was formed through a reaction involving photogenerated singlet oxygen. Heating resulted in the reversion to the initial equilibrium system. Guest binding was observed to influence the formation of specific structures.
A (Zn8L6)-L-II pseudocube containing anthracene-centered ligands, a (Zn4L4)-L-II' tetrahedron with a similar side length as the cube, and a trigonal prism (Zn6L3L2)-L-II' were formed in equilibrium from a common set of subcomponents. Hetero-Diels-Alder reaction with photogenerated singlet oxygen transformed the anthracene-containing L ligands into endoperoxide L-O ones and ultimately drove the integrative self-sorting to form the trigonal prismatic cage (Zn6L3L2)-L-II-L-O' exclusively. This (Zn6L3L2)-L-II-L-O' structure lost dioxygen in a retro-Diels-Alder reaction after heating, which resulted in reversion to the initial (Zn8L6)-L-II + (Zn4L4)-L-II' (sic) 2 x (Zn6L3L2)-L-II-L-O' equilibrating system. Whereas the (Zn8L6)-L-II pseudocube had a cavity too small for guest encapsulation, the (Zn6L3L2)-L-II' and (Zn6L3L2)-L-II-L-O' trigonal prisms possessed peanut-shaped internal cavities with two isolated compartments divided by bulky anthracene panels. Guest binding was also observed to drive the equilibrating system toward exclusive formation of the (Zn6L3L2)-L-II' structure, even in the absence of reaction with singlet oxygen.
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