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Selective binding of hydrogen chloride and its trapping through supramolecular gelation
Shibaji Basak1, Nibedita Nandi, Arindam Banerjee
1Department of Biological Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata - 700 032, India. bcab@iacs.res.in.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 21, 2014
Abstract:
A pyridine containing amino acid based gelator forms gel in aqueous media in the presence of hydrochloric acid and the chloride ion is found to be very selective for gelation. The gelator is successfully applied for the detection and trapping of hydrogen chloride gas and this indicates its probable application for removing hazardous HCl gas from the environment.