Yu Xiujun, Guo Chenxing, Lu Shuai, Chen Zhi, Wang Heng, Li Xiaopeng
College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, China.
Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen University Clinical Medical Academy, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
Macromol Rapid Commun. 2022 Jul;43(14):e2200004. doi: 10.1002/marc.202200004. Epub 2022 Feb 25.
Terpyridine (tpy)-based 3D discrete metallosupramolecular architectures, which are often inspired by polyhedral geometry and the biological structures found in nature, have drawn significant attention from the community of metallosupramolecular chemistry. Because of the linear tpy-M(II)-tpy connectivity, the creation of sophisticated 3D metallosupramolecules based on tpy remains a formidable synthetic challenge. Nevertheless, with recent advancement in ligand design and self-assembly, diverse 3D metallosupramolecular polyhedrons, such as Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prims as well as Johnson solids, have been constructed and their potential applications have been explored. This review summarizes the progress on tpy-based discrete 3D metallosupramolecules, aiming to shed more light on the design and construction of novel discrete architectures with molecular-level precision through coordination-driven self-assembly.
基于三联吡啶（tpy）的三维离散金属超分子结构，通常受到多面体几何形状和自然界中生物结构的启发，引起了金属超分子化学领域的广泛关注。由于tpy-M（II）-tpy的线性连接性，基于tpy构建复杂的三维金属超分子仍然是一项艰巨的合成挑战。然而，随着配体设计和自组装方面的最新进展，已经构建了各种三维金属超分子多面体，如柏拉图立体、阿基米德立体、棱柱以及约翰逊立体，并探索了它们的潜在应用。本综述总结了基于tpy的离散三维金属超分子的研究进展，旨在通过配位驱动的自组装，更深入地了解具有分子水平精度的新型离散结构的设计和构建。
