Copper-based oxidation catalysis

Abstract

Recently we have refined in-house data on the elegant doublybound oligomer-tweezer ('zigzag') complex shown The crystal structure provides the first unequivocal model for chainfolding and small-molecule binding in any synthetic polymer system.Moreover, the supramolecular geometry found in the solid state is remarkably consistent with extensive NMR studies of tweezer-binding in solution.The crystal contains very large solvent cavities and both model building and structure-refinement required very high quality diffraction data.The work was recently accepted for publication in Nature Chemistry [1].