Titanium-Oxide Host Clusters with Exchangeable Guests

Guanyun Zhang, Wenyun Li, Caiyun Liu, Jiong Jia, Chen Ho Tung, Yifeng Wang

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Abstract

A novel family of water-soluble, polyoxocationic titanium-oxide host-guest clusters are reported herein. They exhibit an unprecedented hexagonal prismatic core structure for hosting univalent cationic guests like K+, Rb+, Cs+ and H3O+. Guest exchange has been studied using 133Cs NMR, showing the flexible pore of a host permits passage of a comparatively larger cation and giving an equilibrium constant of ca. 13 for displacing Rb+ by Cs+. Attractive ion-dipole interaction, depending on host-guest size complementarity, plays a dominant role for the preferential encapsulation of larger alkali-metal cationic guests.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)66-69
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume140
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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