Benzimidazole receptors for carboxylic acids

✍ Scribed by Marta Almaraz; Mercedes Martín; JoséV. Hernández; Ma Cruz Caballero; Joaquín R. Morán

• Book ID: 104258884
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 198 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(98)00094-x

✦ Synopsis

Combination of an aminobenzimidazole with a chromenone unit provides a receptor for carboxylic acids or primary amides. This host is highly selective for carboxylic acids with Kass above 106 M -I while amides only bind weakly with association constants in the order of hundreds of M -1.