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The catassembled generation of naphthalene diimide coordination networks with lone pair-π interactions

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Catassembly is a new concept in molecular assembly that is analogous to catalysis in chemical synthesis. However, for most molecular-assembled processes, the catassembler contributions are rather inconspicuous due to the low activation barriers. As a result, few systems dealing with the catassembly are available until now. In this paper, we report that naphthalene diimide coordination networks are formed under the catassembly of lone-pair-bearing catassemblers (e.g., N,N-dimethylacetamide, N-methylpyrrolidin-2-one). During such molecular assembly, a stable transition state between the electron-deficient naphthalene diimide tectons and catassemblers via the less common lone pair-π interactions was observed, which is supposed to play the key role in the enhancement of coordination abilities of organic tectons and thus formation of the final coordination networks.

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    Yong Chen, Jian-Jun Liu, Chang-Rong Fan, Jun-Qian Li & Mei-Jin Lin

  2. State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, 350002, China

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Chen, Y., Liu, JJ., Fan, CR. et al. The catassembled generation of naphthalene diimide coordination networks with lone pair-π interactions. Sci. China Chem. 59, 1492–1497 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-015-0411-2

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