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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 140, Issue 14, Pages 4869-4876Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00394
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21521061, 21471150, 21601183]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB20000000]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province [2016J06005, 2016J05051, 2017J05037]
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Transformations within container-molecules provide a good alternative between traditional homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, as the containers themselves can be regarded as single molecular nanomicelles. We report here the designed-synthesis of a water-soluble redox-active supra molecular Pd4L2 cage and its application in the encapsulation of aromatic molecules and polyoxometalates (POMs) catalysts. Compared to the previous known Pd6L4 cage, our results show that replacement of two cis-blocked palladium corners with p-xylene bridges through pyridinium bonds formation between the 2,4,6-tri-4-pyridyl-1,3,5-triazine (TPT) ligands not only provides reversible redox-activities for the new Pd4L2 cage, but also realizes the expansion and subdivision of its internal cavity. An increased number of guests, including polyaromatics and POMs, can be accommodated inside the Pd4L2 cage. Moreover, both conversion and product selectivity (sulfoxide over sulfone) have also been much enhanced in the desulfurization reactions catalyzed by the POMs@Pd4L2 host guest complexes. We expect that further photochromic or photoredox functions are possible taking advantage of this new generation of organo-palladium cage.
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