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Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism of a Water-Soluble Cryptophane
Thierry Brotin1, Nicolas De Rycke1, Frank Wien2
1ENS Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie, UMR 5182, Lyon, France.
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We report the study of the two enantiomers of the water-soluble cryptophane 1 by Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism (SRCD) in DMSO, LiOH/H2O, NaOH/H2O, KOH/H2O, and CsOH/H2O solutions. Interestingly, SRCD gives access to new Cotton bands that could not be detected with a conventional CD spectrometer. Our findings reveal that the low-lying excited states detected by SRCD spectroscopy are extremely sensitive to the concentration of the basic solution. In contrast, except for the thallium cation, the nature of the cationic species has only a little impact on the overall shape of the SRCD spectra in LiOH/H2O (0.1 M) solution.
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