Homobimetallic macrocycles are prepared from flexible ligands in high yield by means of a new and general synthetic strategy called the "weak-link approach" [Eq. (a)]. Small aromatic molecules can be aligned inside the cage based on their interactions with the two Rh centers of the macrocycle.
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Farrell et al. (1998) studied this question.