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ItemSolid-State Gas Adsorption Studies with Discrete Palladium(II) [Pd-2(L)(4)](4+) Cages(Wiley, 2017-08-04)The need for effective CO2 capture systems remains high, and due to their tunability, metallosupramolecular architectures are an attractive option for gas sorption. While the use of extended metal organic frameworks for gas adsorption has been extensively explored, the exploitation of discrete metallocage architectures to bind gases remains in its infancy. Herein the solid state gas adsorption properties of a series of [Pd2(L)4]4+ lantern shaped coordination cages (L = variants of 2,6‐bis(pyridin‐3‐ylethynyl)pyridine), which had solvent accessible internal cavities suitable for gas binding, have been investigated. The cages showed little interaction with dinitrogen gas but were able to take up CO2. The best performing cage reversibly sorbed 1.4 mol CO2 per mol cage at 298 K, and 2.3 mol CO2 per mol cage at 258 K (1 bar). The enthalpy of binding was calculated to be 25–35 kJ mol−1, across the number of equivalents bound, while DFT calculations on the CO2 binding in the cage gave ΔE for the cage–CO2 interaction of 23–28 kJ mol−1, across the same range. DFT modelling suggested that the binding mode is a hydrogen bond between the carbonyl oxygen of CO2 and the internally directed hydrogen atoms of the cage.
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ItemTunable Porous Coordination Polymers for the Capture, Recovery and Storage of Inhalation Anesthetics(Wiley, 2017-06-12)The uptake of inhalation anesthetics by three topologically identical frameworks is described. The 3D network materials, which possess square channels of different dimensions, are formed from the relatively simple combination of ZnII centres and dianionic ligands that contain a phenolate and a carboxylate group at opposite ends. All three framework materials are able to adsorb N2O, Xe and isoflurane. Whereas the framework with the widest channels is able to adsorb large quantities of the various guests from the gas phase, the frameworks with the narrower channels have superior binding enthalpies and exhibit higher levels of retention. The use of ligands in which substituents are bound to the aromatic rings of the bridging ligands offers great scope for tuning the adsorption properties of the framework materials.
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ItemGuest-induced Assembly of Bis(thiosemicarbazonato) Zinc(II) Coordination Nanotubes(Wiley, 2017-07-10)A ZnII complex of the dianionic tetradentate ligand formed by deprotonation of glyoxal‐bis(4‐phenyl‐3‐thiosemicarbazone) (H2gtsp) is a [3+3] trinuclear triangular prism. Recrystallization of this complex in the presence of either CO2, CS2, or CH3CN leads to the formation of [4+4] open‐ended charge‐neutral tetranuclear coordination nanotubes, approximately 2 nm in length and with internal dimensions large enough to accommodate linear guest molecules, which serve to template their formation. Upon removal of the templating molecules the nanotubes demonstrated reversible sorption of CO2 with an isosteric enthalpy of sorption of 28 kJ mol−1 at low loading.
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ItemLi+ and Ca2+ Derivatives of the Isonicotinate-N-oxide Ion Including Single Crystal-to-Single Crystal Transformations(AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2014-09)