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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 57, Issue 7, Pages 3579-3586Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02703
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- DFG [Schm 647/19-2, 20-1]
- University of Siegen
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A three-component supramolecular walker system is presented where a two-footed ligand (biped) walks back and forth on a tetrahedral 3D track upon the addition and removal of copper(I) ions, respectively. The addition of N-methylpyrrolidine as a catalyst to the walker system generates a four-component catalytic machinery, which acts as a three state switchable catalytic ensemble in the presence of substrates for a conjugate addition. The copper(I)-ion-initiated walking process of the biped ligand on the track regulates the catalytic activity in three steps: ON versus (ON)-O-int (intermediate ON) versus OFF. To establish the operation of the four-component catalytic machinery in a mixture of all constituents, forward and backward cycles were performed in situ illustrating that both the walking process and catalytic action are fully reversible and reproducible.
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