A coarse-grained analysis on coordination self-assembly of a caged dinuclear palladium complex

Abstract

We propose a coarse-grained analysis to understand coordination self-assembly. The developed model reduced the system into the assembling components that interact mainly electrostatically. The modeled energies sufficiently reproduced the energy changes to produce a caged di-nuclear palladium complex obtained by the density functional theory. The model made it possible to clarify the physicochemical background of the assembly process.