Issue 14, 2020

Anion templated crystal engineering of halogen bonding tripodal tris(halopyridinium) compounds

Abstract

In this work four new tripodal tris(halopyridinium) receptors containing potentially halogen bonding groups were prepared. The ability of the receptors to bind anions in competitive CD3CN/d6-DMSO was studied using 1H NMR titration experiments, which revealed that the receptors bind chloride anions more strongly than more basic acetate or other halide ions. The solid state self-assembly of the tripodal receptors with halide anions was investigated by X-ray crystallography. The nature of the structures was dependent on the choice of halide anion, as well as the crystallisation solvent. Halogen bond lengths as short as 80% of the sum of the van der Waals radii were observed, which is shorter than any halogen bonds involving halopyridinium receptors in the Cambridge Structural Database.

Graphical abstract: Anion templated crystal engineering of halogen bonding tripodal tris(halopyridinium) compounds

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 feb 2020
Accepted
08 mrt 2020
First published
24 mrt 2020

CrystEngComm, 2020,22, 2526-2536

Anion templated crystal engineering of halogen bonding tripodal tris(halopyridinium) compounds

É. M. Foyle and N. G. White, CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 2526 DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00241K

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