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Title: Multiheteromacrocycles that complex metal ions. Eighth progress report, 1 May 1981--30 April 1982

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10120948· OSTI ID:10120948

The overall objective of this research is to design, synthesize, and evaluate cyclic and polycyclic host organic compounds for their abilities to complex and lipophilize guest metal ions, their complexes, and their clusters. Host organic compounds consist of strategically placed solvating, coordinating, and ion-pairing sites tied together by covalent bonds through hydrocarbon units around cavities shaped to be occupied by guest metal ions, or by metal ions plus their ligands. Specificity in complexation is sought by matching the following properties of host and guest: cavity and metal ion sizes: geometric arrangements of binding sites; number of binding sites; character of binding sites; and valences. The hope is to synthesize new classes of compounds useful in the separation of metal ions, their complexes, and their clusters.

Research Organization:
California Univ., Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AS03-76ER72018
OSTI ID:
10120948
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/72018-8; ON: DE92007471
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 15 Sep 1981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English