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The non-templated empty cavity and its selective anion binding despite having similar shapes
Kwan Mook Kim1, Ki-Hyun Kim, Tae Yi Kang
1Life Science Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 130-650, Korea. kkmook@kist.re.kr
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 5, 2003
Abstract:
An inorganic tennis ball with an empty cavity was formed without any assistance of guest molecules, and found to bind various anions selectively depending on their size and copper-anion interaction strengths without much change of the shapes.