The complexation of Alkali metal cations by the water-soluble p-sulfonic acid calix(4)arenewas thermodynamically characterized using spectrophotometeric data which are consistentwith the formation of a 1:1 complex resulting from electrostatic interactions between thesulfonato groups and alkali metal cations. In this study, we determined the formationconstants (log K) of the complexes and have c...

The effect of temperature and NaCl concentration variations on the self-assembly of 1-methyl-3-tetradecylimidazolium (C14mim(+)) and 4-sulfonatocalix[6]arene (SCX6) was studied by dynamic light scattering and isothermal calorimetric methods at pH 7. Inclusion complex formation promoted the self-assembly to spherical nanoparticles (NP), which transformed to supramolecular micelles (SM) in the pr...

The acid dissociation constants of the hydroxyl groups in 25, 26, 27, 28-tetrahydroxy-5, 11, 17, 23-tetrasulphonic-calix[4]arene (SC4) were determined at 25οC by a combination of potentiometric and spectrophotometric titration method. The first and second acid dissociation constants (pKa1, pKa2) were found to be 3.19 and 12.1, which demonstrated pKa shift due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding ...

Driven by an interest in the impact of para-substituent calix[4]arenes on metal complexation and structural chemistry, studies p-cyclohexylcalix[4]arene (L) have been carried out. The 1:1 dichloromethane dimethylformamide solvates were found to be isostructural, different typical bilayer structure often observed for p-t-butylcalix[4]arene solvates. methanol solvate, contrast, does form a bilaye...

Arene ruthenium complexes containing long-chain N-ligands L = NC5H4–4-COO–C6H4–4-O–(CH2)9–CH3 or L 2 = NC5H4–4-COO–(CH2)10– O–C6H4–4-COO–C6H4–4-C6H4–4-CN derived from isonicotinic acid, of the type [(arene)Ru(L)Cl2] (arene = C6H6, L = L : 1; arene = p-MeC6H4Pr , L = L: 2; arene = C6Me6, L = L : 3; arene = C6H6, L = L : 4; arene = p-MeC6H4Pr , L = L: 5; arene = C6Me6, L = L : 6) have been synthe...