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A trefoil knotted polymer produced through ring expansion
Cao, Peng-Fei,Mangadlao, Joey,Advincula, Rigoberto
, p. 5127 - 5131 (2015)
A synthetic strategy is reported for the production of a trefoil knotted polymer from a copper(I)-templated helical knot precursor through ring expansion. The expected changes in the properties of the knotted polymer compared to a linear analogue, for exa
Molecular composite knots
Carina, Riccardo F.,Dietrich-Buchecker, Christiane,Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
, p. 9110 - 9116 (2007/10/03)
Molecular composite knots have been prepared from transition metal-assembled precursors via a Glaser acetylenic coupling reaction. The templating metal is copper(I), and the coordinating fragments incorporated into the final structure are 1,10-phenanthroline-type chelates. The compounds are composite knots as opposed to prime knots such as the classical trefoil knot. By combining two tied open-chain fragments in a cyclodimerization reaction, the simplest composite knots are obtained as a mixture of two topological diastereomers. The minimum number of crossing points used to represent the molecules in a plane is six. Due to the complexity of the entangled precursors and to the several cyclization possibilities, the formation yield of composite knots is only modest (~3%). On the other hand, the compound has been fully characterized by ES-MS (molecular weight, 4037.8) and by 1H NMR spectroscopy, including 2D NMR (NOESY).