Meaning of octadentate | Babel Free

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Of a ligand, capable of forming eight separate chemical bonds to a coordinating metal ion

not-comparable

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“Recently, the invention of synthetic routes to very large π-conjugated macrocycles has sparked a renaissance in this field, driven by the quest to understand⟳ energy transfer⟳, charge delocalization, and nonlinear optical phenomena in these nanostructures.[ 2 – 15 ] Template-directed synthesis makes it possible to create⟳ large, fully π-conjugated macrocycles in a size-range that could not have⟳ been reached without programmed self-assembly.[ 7, 9, 10 ] The classical template effect translates information from the size and shape⟳ of a template to direct⟳ the construction of a complementary macrocycle.[ 16 ] We have⟳ used this approach⟳ to prepare⟳ nanorings consisting of 6 and 8 porphyrin units, using hexadentate and octadentate templates.[ 9a – c ] This classical approach⟳ is not convenient for the synthesis of larger nanorings because of the inaccessibility of suitable templates.”

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