Issue 43, 2020

Selective enclathration of xylenols: synergistic effects of mixed hosts

Abstract

The six xylenol (XYL) isomers can be separated by selective enclathration with the host 4,4-isopropylidene bisphenol, H1. Crystal structures were elucidated for the following single and mixed guest inclusion compounds with H1: H1·34XYL (I), H1·35XYL (II), H1·23XYL·26XYL (III), H1·23XYL·35XYL (IV), where the xylenol isomers are abbreviated as, for example 34XYL for 3,4-xylenol. The crystal structures of selected H1·xylenols showed that there is extensive host⋯host and host⋯guest hydrogen bonding. Competition experiments with equimolar mixtures of pairs of xylenols (XYL) showed that the preference for inclusion was in the sequence 34XYL > 35XYL > 26XYL > 23XYL > 25XYL > 24XYL. By analogy to the Dutch resolution method (in which families of resolving agents are used to achieve chiral separations), two host compounds similar to H1 were used in pairs with H1 to improve the selectivity of the xylenols. 4,4′-(9-Fluorenylidene)bisphenol, H2, and 4,4′(cyclohexylidene)bisphenol, H3, were used in pairs with H1 and were shown to enhance the selectivity of a given xylenol which had been poorly separated by H1 alone. The crystal structure was elucidated for an unusual mixed host–mixed guest inclusion compound, H1·H2·26XYL/35XYL (V).

Graphical abstract: Selective enclathration of xylenols: synergistic effects of mixed hosts

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 4 2020
Accepted
22 6 2020
First published
22 6 2020

CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 7389-7398

Selective enclathration of xylenols: synergistic effects of mixed hosts

J. S. Bouanga Boudiombo, H. Su, N. Ravenscroft, S. A. Bourne and L. R. Nassimbeni, CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 7389 DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00510J

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