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Water assisted formation of a pseudorotaxane and its dimer based on a supramolecular cryptand
Feihe Huang1, Lev N Zakharov, Arnold L Rheingold
1Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0212, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 19, 2003
Abstract:
Water acts as a "molecular clip" to form a supramolecular cryptand structure that improves complexation of a diammonium salt by pseudorotaxane formation, and leads to a novel dimer in the solid state.