Dominant/recessive behavior in the expression of molecular information: Self-assembly of inorganic macrocyclic architectures containing coordinatively unsaturated ligands

AUTOR(ES)

Funeriu, Daniel P.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The polytopic ligand 1 contains three different metal ion binding subunits forming two substructures that code for the self-assembly of two different coordination structures (helicate and grid type) under metal ion complexation. Reaction with Cu(II) and Zn(II) ions generates the coordinatively unsaturated architectures 8 and 9 resulting from the formation of two double helicate arrangements. Their crystal structure has been determined by x-ray diffraction. These results show that the double helical motif is expressed at the expense of the grid type one, indicating the dominant/recessive behavior of the system. Together with earlier studies on the linear combination and crossover processing schemes, the dominant/recessive generation of 8 and 9 completes the demonstration of principle of the modes of multiple expression of molecular information in a multicode programmed chemical system.

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