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Thermodynamic studies of slow metal exchange processes in ionophoric calix[n]arenes with a capsule-like closed cavity

✍ Scribed by Yoshio Suzuki; Hideyuki Otsuka; Atsushi Ikeda; Seiji Shinkai


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
French
Weight
219 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


It was found that in a triply-capped calix[6]arene (1) and doubly-bridged calix[8]arene (2a and 2b) with a closed ionophoric cavity the Cs + complexation occurs very. slowly in a human timescale and can be followed by a conventional spectroscopic method. The unusual behavior has enabled us to determine their kinetic activation parameters for both the forward and the reverse reaction. The results established that being different from the concept believed so far, the Cs + complexation is heavily governed by the entropy term but not by the enthalpy term.