Issue 11, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Constructing cerium supramolecular wheels and encapsulating uranium with a Schiff-base calixpyrrole ligand†

Polly L. Arnold,*a   Natalie A. Potter (née Jones),a   Christopher D. Carmichael,a   Alexandra M. Z. Slawin,b   Paul Rousselc  and  Jason B. Love*a  

* Corresponding authors

a EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Joseph Black Building, The King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK
E-mail: polly.arnold@ed.ac.uk, jason.love@ed.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)131 6504743

b EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, UK

c Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire, UK

Abstract

Trinuclear, supramolecular wheel structures are formed spontaneously from the metallation of a Schiff-base-pyrrolemacrocycle by Ce3+ cations, while the related actinide U3+ cation is instead oxidised to U4+ and encapsulated by the macrocyclic framework.

Graphical abstract: Constructing cerium supramolecular wheels and encapsulating uranium with a Schiff-base calixpyrrole ligand

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B921132B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Oct 2009
Accepted
09 Dec 2009
First published
12 Feb 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 1833-1835

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Constructing cerium supramolecular wheels and encapsulating uranium with a Schiff-base calixpyrrole ligand

P. L. Arnold, N. A. Potter (née Jones), C. D. Carmichael, A. M. Z. Slawin, P. Roussel and J. B. Love, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 1833 DOI: 10.1039/B921132B

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