Pt/Pd–Ethynyl Bond Containing Fluorescent Molecular Architectures as Sensors for Nitroaromatics - Molecular Self-Assembly: Advances and Applications - page 259

Chapter 9

Pt/Pd-Ethynyl Bond Containing
Fluorescent Molecular Architectures as
Sensors for Nitroaromatics

Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, * Sunipa Pramanik,
and Sankarasekaran Shanmugaraju
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore 560012, India
*[e-mail]

9.1 Introduction

For more than a decade, abiological self-assembly of discrete
supramolecular architectures has emerged as an efficient tool to
mimic nature's own structural complexity and functions. Of the
various self-assembly protocols, the coordination-driven self-
assembly is especially appealing and an effective protocol for the
construction of supramolecular architecture because of the large
and diverse number of structural motifs accessible via coordination
geometry of transition metal ions. With a careful and informed choice
of the predesigned complementary building unit, the resulting