Issue 94, 2019
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Chemical Communications

Binding affinities of cucurbit[n]urils with cations†

Shuai Zhang,‡a   Laura Grimm, ORCID logo ‡b   Zsombor Miskolczy, ORCID logo c   László Biczók, ORCID logo c   Frank Biedermann ORCID logo *b  and  Werner M. Nau ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University, Campus Ring 1, Bremen, Germany
E-mail: w.nau@jacobs-university.de

b Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
E-mail: frank.biedermann@kit.edu

c Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, P. O. Box 286, 1519 Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

High binding constants of 19 inorganic cations with the cucurbit[n]uril homologues (CBn, n = 5, 6, 7, 8) in water were determined and the far-reaching consequences and interferences of the high affinities (millimolar to micromolar) are discussed.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC07687E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Sep 2019
Accepted
23 Oct 2019
First published
23 Oct 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 14131-14134

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Binding affinities of cucurbit[n]urils with cations

S. Zhang, L. Grimm, Z. Miskolczy, L. Biczók, F. Biedermann and W. M. Nau, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 14131 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC07687E

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