Construction of the first cross-linked double helical polyiodide.

A homobimetallic supramolecular helicate has been used to template the formation of a polyiodide network which adopts an infinite cross-linked double helical structure, topologically analogous to DNA.

Helical templating of polyiodide networks at a binuclear metallo complex.

A homobimetallic supramolecular helicate has been prepared from a new multimodal ligand, and used to template the formation of two polyiodide networks, one containing an unprecedented figure-of-eight polyiodide helix, the other dominated by peripheral C-H...