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Line Shape Analysis of Dynamic NMR Spectra for Characterizing Coordination Sphere Rearrangements at a Chiral Rhenium Polyhydride Complex
Published on: July 27, 2022
A combined experimental and DFT study on the complexation of the hydrazinium cation with a hexaarylbenzene - based
Abstract:
From extraction experiments and γ-activity measurements, the exchange extraction constant corresponding to the equilibrium N2H+5 (aq) + 1.Cs+(nb) <-> 1.N2H+5 (nb) + Cs+(aq) taking place in the two-phase water-nitrobenzene system (1 = hexaarylbenzene - based receptor; aq = aqueous phase, nb = nitrobenzene phase) was evaluated as log Kex (N2H+5, 1.Cs+) = -1.2 ± 0.1. Further, the stability constant of the hexaarylbenzene - based receptor .N2H+5 complex (abbrev. 1.N2H+5) in nitrobenzene saturated with water was calculated for a temperature of 25 °C: log βnb (1.N2H+5) = 5.6 ± 0.2. By using quantum mechanical DFT calculations, the most probable structure of the 1.N2H+5 complex species was solved. In this complex, the cation N2H+5 synergistically interacts with the polar ethereal oxygen fence and with the central hydrophobic benzene bottom via cation - π interaction. Finally, the calculated binding energy of the resulting complex 1.N2H+5 is -270.5 kJ/mol, confirming the relatively high stability of the considered cationic complex species.
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