Praseodymium(III)-based bis-metallacalix[4]arene with host-guest behaviour

Gong-Feng Xu; Patrick Gamez; Simon J Teat; Jinkui Tang

doi:10.1039/b925297e

Praseodymium(III)-based bis-metallacalix[4]arene with host-guest behaviour

Dalton Trans. 2010 May 14;39(18):4353-7. doi: 10.1039/b925297e. Epub 2010 Mar 24.

Authors

Gong-Feng Xu¹, Patrick Gamez, Simon J Teat, Jinkui Tang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, PR China.

PMID: 20422093
DOI: 10.1039/b925297e

Abstract

The reaction of Pr(NO(3))(3).6H(2)O with the ligand 2-hydroxy-N-(2'-hydroxyethyl)-3-methoxybenzamide (H(3)L) in MeOH-MeCN generates the nonanuclear compound [Pr(9)(H(2)L)(8)(OH)(10)(NO(3))(8)](NO(3))(H(2)O)(2)(CH(3)CN) (), whose single-crystal X-ray structure reveals the presence of metallacalix[4]arene cavities that host guest molecules. The crystal packing of the antiferromagnetic Pr(9) cluster shows an intricate network of hydrogen bonds producing a one-dimensional supramolecular chain.