Light‐Triggered Guest Uptake and Release by a Photochromic Coordination Cage

Abstract

A guiding light is sufficient to switch back and forth between the flexible and the stretched, rigid form of a self-assembled coordination cage based on two square-planar-coordinated PdII ions and four ligands with a photochromic dithienylethene (DTE) backbone. The light-driven interconversion is clean and reversible and allows to control the encapsulation and release of the guest [B12F12]2−. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.