Cover Feature: Face‐Directed Tetrahedral Organic Cage Anchored Palladium Nanoparticles for Selective Homocoupling Reactions (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 7/2022)

Abstract

The Cover Feature shows the formation of two face-directed truncated tetrahedral enantiopure organic cages by employing dynamic imine condensation reactions of a hexa-aldehyde precursor with trans-oriented enantiopure diamines separately. In view of its intrinsic porosity combined with the presence of multiple vicinal di-imine corners and stable aromatic backbones, one of the cages was used as a template for nucleation of ultrafine Pd-nanoparticles (PdNPs). The cage-PdNPs hybrid was further utilized as a suitable catalyst for selective and additive-free C−C homocoupling reactions of aryl and heteroaryl halides under heterogeneous conditions. Moreover, the composite material exhibited high durability and thermal stability for several catalytic cycles without any agglomeration. More information can be found in the Research Article by P. S. Mukherjee and co-workers.