Prakasam, Thirumurugan; Bilbeisi, Rana A.; El-Khoury, Roberto; Charbonniére, Loïc J.; Elhabiri, Mourad; Esposito, Gennaro; Olsen, John Carl; Trabolsi, Ali
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)
Topological transformation of a zinc-templated trefoil knot, Zn-TK, into a zinc-templated [2]catenane, Zn-[2]C, was studied. The net reaction 2 Zn-TK → 3 Zn-[2]C was accomplished in 89% yield by heating a solution of Zn-TK ...