Molecular Marriage through Partner Preferences in Covalent Cage Formation and Cage-to-Cage Transformation

• DOI: 10.1021/ja310083p
• Publication Date: 2012-12-26T22:09:53Z
• Authors: Koushik Acharyya; Sandip Mukherjee; Partha Sarathi Mu...
• Keywords: Cage

Unprecedented self-sorting of three-dimensional purely organic cages driven by dynamic covalent bonds is described. Four different were first synthesized condensation two triamines and dialdehydes separately. When a mixture all the components was allowed to react, only formed, which suggests high-fidelity self-recognition. The issue preference one triamine for particular dialdehyde further probed transforming non-preferred combination either preferred combinations reacting it with appropriate or dialdehyde.