A Highly Effective Strategy for Encapsulating Potassium Cations in Small Crown Ether Rings on a Dinuclear Palladium Complex
2017
The potential of 15-crown-5 ethers to link large cations, such as potassium, is limited by the quasi-parallel arrangement of two oxygen donor moieties upon appropriate orientation of the corresponding ether-ring-containing molecules. Substrates bearing the two crown ethers that are capable of achieving such coordination are hitherto unknown. The synthesis and isolation of a tailor-made dinuclear palladacycle bearing 15-crown-5 ether rings on the metallated phenyls offers such a possibility, providing the adequate environment for the formation of the sandwiched [K(metallacycle-15-crown-5)2] moiety. This synthetic strategy also culminates in the isolation of the first palladacycle able to entrap a potassium cation through bonding to two 15-crown-5 ether rings in a single molecule.
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