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A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages
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A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages

B.F. Abrahams, B.A. Boughton, N.J. FitzGerald, J.L. Holmes and R. Robson
Chemical Communications, Vol.47(26), pp.7404-7406
2011
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Abstract

The combination of six Cu(II) centres with four cyclotricatechylene (ctc6−) ligands generates large (Cu6ctc4)12− cages with the topology of the tetrahedron. The anionic tetrahedral cages are cemented together, triangular face to triangular face, by Na+ cations together with water molecules to generate a highly symmetric diamond-like assembly (space group Fd-3m, the same as that of diamond itself) whose adamantane-like units have an iodide ion at the centre of every cyclohexane-like face.

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2 Chemistry
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