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Published on: March 12, 2015
Confinement effects of a crystalline sponge on ferrocene and ferrocene carboxaldehyde
Gabriel Brunet1, Damir A Safin, Koen Robeyns
1Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5. m.murugesu@uottawa.ca.
Abstract:
The pivotal role of ππ interactions in the inclusion behaviour of a series of organometallic sandwich compounds is studied through single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The confinement effects of a crystalline sponge host are investigated where, notably, we observe an enhanced rotation of the ligand ring once encapsulated by the nanoporous framework, as evidenced by SSNMR experiments.
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