1. Home
    2. Journals
    3. Journal of Chemical Sciences
    4. Volume 126
    5. Issue 5

    • Fulltext

       

        Click here to view fulltext PDF


      Permanent link:
      https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jcsc/126/05/1323-1329

    • Keywords

       

      Tröger’s Base; X-ray Crystallography; Host-Guest Chemistry; Lattice Inclusion.

    • Abstract

       

      We have designed and synthesized a modified Tröger’s base TB in which the sterically-rigidified aryl rings that protrude into its groove were envisaged to preclude self-inclusion. From a limited preliminary experimentation, TB has been found to exhibit guest inclusion. The X-ray determined structures of the crystals of guest-free TB and its inclusion compounds with acetonitrile and 𝑜-dichlorobenzene reveal remarkable adaptability of the TB core to undergo subtle structural changes in response to the guest that is included. The structural analyses demonstrate the fact that TB behaves like a molecular tweezer.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Ishita Neogi1 Alankriti Bajpai1 Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy1

      1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016, India

    • Dates

       
      Published
      September 2014
      Manuscript received
      8 May 2014
      Manuscript revised
      15 June 2014
      Accepted
      16 June 2014

    • Supplementary Material

       

  • Journal of Chemical Sciences | News

© 2022-2023 Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.

Contact | Site index