Inclusion of volatile guests by a tetrapedal host: structure and kinetics.

Org Biomol Chem

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.

Published: June 2006

The host compound tetra(3-hydroxy-3,3-diphenyl-2-propynyl)ethene, TET, forms inclusion compounds with acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dioxane and pyridine. All the structures were successfully solved in the triclinic space group P1[combining macron]. We found variable host : guest ratios for the acetone (TET.ACE, H : G = 1 : 4), dimethyl sulfoxide (TET.DMSO, H : G = 1 : 4) and pyridine compounds (TET.PYR, H : G = 1 : 5). Solutions of the host compound and dioxane formed TET.2DIOX, H : G = 1 : 2 when left to crystallise at room temperature, whereas TET.4DIOX, H : G = 1 : 4 was formed during crystal growth at low temperature. We have correlated the structures with their thermal stabilities and kinetics of desolvation.

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