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Accessing Valuable Ligand Supports for Transition Metals: A Modified, Intermediate Scale Preparation of 1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclopentadiene
Published on: March 20, 2017
Constructing cerium supramolecular wheels and encapsulating uranium with a Schiff-base calixpyrrole ligand
Polly L Arnold1, Natalie A Potter, Christopher D Carmichael
1EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Joseph Black Building, The King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK EH9 3JJ. polly.arnold@ed.ac.uk
Abstract:
Trinuclear, supramolecular wheel structures are formed spontaneously from the metallation of a Schiff-base-pyrrole macrocycle by Ce(3+) cations, while the related actinide U(3+) cation is instead oxidised to U(4+) and encapsulated by the macrocyclic framework.
