Changing the volume of a giant macrocycle: the swelling of the macrocycle with organic solvents

Aya Harano; Minako Tanaka; Takeshi Nakagaki; Masahiko Annaka; Keiko Ideta; Kenta Goto; Teruo Shinmyozu

doi:10.1039/c1ob05272a

Changing the volume of a giant macrocycle: the swelling of the macrocycle with organic solvents

Org Biomol Chem. 2011 May 21;9(10):3611-4. doi: 10.1039/c1ob05272a. Epub 2011 Apr 11.

Authors

Aya Harano¹, Minako Tanaka, Takeshi Nakagaki, Masahiko Annaka, Keiko Ideta, Kenta Goto, Teruo Shinmyozu

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.

PMID: 21483979
DOI: 10.1039/c1ob05272a

Abstract

The novel tetrahedral macrocycles 1a-1c have been synthesized. Macrocycles 1a and 1c were revealed to have the property to increase in volume in solution by complexation between the macrocycle and the solvent molecules.