Chakraborty, D and Saha, R and Clegg, JK and Mukherjee, PS (2022) Selective separation of planar and non-planar hydrocarbons using an aqueous Pd6 interlocked cage. In: Chemical Science .
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Abstract
Abstract Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) find multiple applications ranging from fabric dyes to optoelectronic materials. Hydrogenation of PAHs is often employed for their purification or derivatization. However, separation of PAHs from their hydrogenated analogues is challenging because of their similar physical properties. An example of such is the separation of 9,10-dihydroanthracene from phenanthrene/anthracene which requires fractional distillation at high temperature (∼340 °C) to obtain pure anthracene/phenanthrene in coal industry. Herein we demonstrate a new approach for this separation at room temperature using a water-soluble interlocked cage (1) as extracting agent by host-guest chemistry. The cage was obtained by self-assembly of a triimidazole donor L·HNO3 with cis-[(tmeda)Pd(NO3)2] (M) [tmeda = N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethane-1,2-diamine]. 1 has a triply interlocked structure with an inner cavity capable of selectively binding planar aromatic guests.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Chemical Science |
| Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Author(s). |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Inorganic & Physical Chemistry |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2022 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2022 09:54 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/77781 |
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