Self-assembly of chiral porous supra-molecular complex with three-dimensional nano-cage structure filled with guest molecule

Abstract The structural characterization of three dimensions complex 1 {[Mo(phen) 3 ][MoNa(ox) 3 ]} n (phen=1,10-phenanthroline, ox = oxalate) assembled in mixed-solvo-thermal reaction condition shows that there exists nanocages, with diameter up to1.4 nm size, occupied by guest molecules Mo(phen) 3 with diameter close to 1 nm, and that the complex 1 exhibits chirality in both molecule and supramolecule levels, and respond to EPR signal as well.