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Tailor-Made Pd n L 2n Metal-Organic Cages through Covalent Post-Synthetic Modification.

Dong LuoZi-Jun YuanLin-Jie PingXiao-Wei ZhuJi ZhengChuang-Wei ZhouXian-Chao ZhouXiao-Ping ZhouDan Li
Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2023)
Post-synthetic modification (PSM) is an effective approach for the tailored functionalization of metal-organic architectures, but its generalizability remains challenging. Herein we report a general covalent PSM strategy to functionalize Pd n L 2n metal-organic cages (MOCs, n=2, 12) through an efficient Diels-Alder cycloaddition between peripheral anthracene substituents and various functional motifs bearing a maleimide group. As expected, the solubility of functionalized Pd 12 L 24 in common solvents can be greatly improved. Interestingly, concentration-dependent circular dichroism and aggregation-induced emission are achieved with chiral binaphthol (BINOL)- and tetraphenylethylene-modified Pd 12 L 24 , respectively. Furthermore, Pd 12 L 24 can be introduced with two different functional groups (e.g., chiral BINOL and achiral pyrene) through a step-by-step PSM route to obtain chirality-induced circularly polarized luminescence. Moreover, similar results are readily observed with a smaller Pd 2 L 4 system.
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