By introducing a third arm with two anionic carboxylate groups, a water-soluble bis(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10-based cryptand was synthesized. Its pH-controlled host-guest complexation with a paraquat derivative in water was studied.

In the title compound, [K(C(18)H(36)N(2)O(6))][Co(NCO)(2)(C(44)H(28)N(4))]·0.5C(6)H(5)Cl or [K(2,2,2-crypt)(+)][Co(III)(NCO)(2)(TPP)(-)]·0.5C(6)H(5)Cl, the Co(III) ion is octa-hedrally coordin-ated by two axial N-bonded NCO(-) anions and four pyrrole N atoms of the porphyrin. There is a major ruffling distortion of the porphyrin: the dihedral angles between trans pyrrole rings are 34.32 (14) an...

An encapsulated chloride in a thiophene-based cryptand is bridged by two in-in protons of tertiary amines with an N...Cl(-) distance of 3.048(3) A, similar to that observed in Park and Simmons' katapinand chloride complex.

Supercritical fluid CO 2 is an alternative solvent for extraction of metals. The solubility parameter of supercritical CO 2 varies with density resembling that of liquid hexane at moderate pressures in the supercritical region to those of chlorinated solvents at very high pressures. By changing density of supercritical CO 2 , the solvation environment of a metal chelate system can vary continuo...

Cofacial bimetallic tin(ii) ([Sn2(mBDCA-5t)]2-, 1) and lead(ii) ([Pb2(mBDCA-5t)]2-, 2) complexes have been prepared by hexadeprotonation of hexacarboxamide cryptand mBDCA-5t-H6 together with double Sn(ii) or Pb(ii) insertion. Reaction of 1 with elemental sulfur or selenium generates di-tin polychalcogenide complexes containing μ-E and bridging μ-E5 ligands where E = S or Se, and the Sn(ii) cent...

The title salt, [K(C(18)H(36)N(2)O(6))][Co(C(2)H(4))(4)], is one of only two known homoleptic ethyl-enemetalates. The cation and anion are well separated, which gives an unperturbed tetra-hedral anion as is expected for a formally Co(-I)d(10) metal center. The considerable elongation of the C=C bonds of the ethyl-ene ligands [average 1.401 (6) Å], relative to that of free ethyl-ene (1.333 Å), i...

Two cryptand molecules are connected via p-xyloyl, benzene-1,4-dicarbolyol and 9,10-dimethylene anthracene. Each cryptand is further derivatized with fluorophores such that electronic absorption of one fluorophore overlaps emission of the other. This way, three different systems L(1), L(2) and L(3) have been synthesized to get a better view of the effect on the distance in single- and two-step ...