Selective assembly and disassembly of a water-soluble Fe10L 15 prism

Abstract

Survival of the fittest: Two water-soluble metal-organic architectures, a tetrahedron and a pentagonal prism, were selectively assembled from the same building blocks under different reaction conditions. In a mixture of the two, the prism was disassembled upon addition of 4-methoxyaniline to form a mononuclear complex, while leaving the more stable tetrahedral structure intact. Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.