Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Electrochemical Properties of the Complex Cd（α-FRA）2（Phen）（H2O）

1 INTRODUCTION The syntheses and structures of carboxyl complex- es have captured the interest of chemists for years due to their potential applications in many fields, such as materials, medicine, molecular electro-che- mistry and biochemistry[1～3]. So far, to the best of our knowledge, cadmium complexes with aromatic carboxylic acid as ligands have been intensively studied[4～7], but those with heterocyclic carboxylic acid as ligands are much less. α-Furoic acid is widely used in orga…     

Synthesis and Structure of Iron Complex with 1,2—Dithiolate—1,2—dicarba—closo—dodecaborane [Li（THF）4][Fe（S2C2B10H10）2（THF）]

1 INTRODUCTION The complexes containing dithiolate ligands have played a well-established role in modern coordination chemistry[1]. There is continuous interest in complexes of chalcogenolate ligands with transition metals such as complexes of Pd[1], Mo[1], Au[2], Ir[3～6], Rh[4, 5], Co[7] and Re[1, 8] containing a chelating 1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecabarane-1,2-dich- alcogenolate ligand. Some of these complexes have become important in the study of new molecular materials[1, 9, 10]. Th…     

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a Novel Complex [Ag(NIT3Py)_3]·(ClO_4)(H_2O)

1 INTRODUCTION Nitronyl nitroxide radicals (NITR), stable organic radicals, have played an important role in the design and synthesis of molecular magnetic materials[1, 2]. However, nitronyl nitroxide radicals are poor elec- tron-donor ligands and their coordination ability is limited. Recently, it has led to the development of functionalized nitronyl nitroxide radicals in which a strong coligand is incorporated. Due to the strong coordinate ability of nitrogen atom from pryidinyl ring,…     

Multicomponent Self-assembly:Spontaneous Formation of a Metallomacrocycle from Two Quinoline Based Linear Ligands and Four Silver(Ⅰ) Nitrates

Using metal ions to control the self-assembly of metallosupramolecules of varying architecture is one of the fascinating developments in supramolecular chemistry[1,2],particularly those concerned with the deliberate construction of molecular aggregates,like helices,rotaxanes,catenanes,knots,cages[3～6] and the crystal engineering of two or three dimensional networks with varied topology and interpenetration[7～10].Coordination bonds have proved themselves to be one of the most useful connectors in supramolecular self-assembly due to their versatile geometrical modes(e.g.linear,trigonal,square plane,tetrahedral,octahedral) in bond formations.By careful design of tailored ligands,various novel supramolecular architectures have been constructed.Recently,angular bi- or tridentate and other polydentate ligands have aroused a special interest,and a variety of molecular squares,boxes and cages[1～14] with internal cavity or void have been reported,in which many nanoscale structures are formed[6,15,16].We have been interested in the construction of metal based supramolecular structures with polydentate ligands[17～20] and herein report a new metallomacrocyclic complex assembled from two linear polydentate ligands and silver(Ⅰ) nitrate.     

Preface

As a kind of molecular materials that have infinite metalligand backbones connected by coordination bonds,owing to the diversity of organic bridging ligands and flexibility of metal ions and organic bridging ligands in coordination     

Molecular path for ligand search

A ligand is a small molecule bind to several residues of a receptor.We adapt the concept of molecular path for effective ligand search with its contacting residues.Additionally,we allow wild type definitions on atoms and bonds of molecular paths for fuzzy algorithms on structural match.We choose hydrogen bond interactions to characterize the binding mode of a ligand by several proper molecular paths and use them to query the deposited ligands in PDBe that interact with their residues in the same way. Expression of molecular path and format of database entries are described with examples.Our molecular path provides a new approach to explore the ligand-receptor interactions and to provide structural framework reference on new ligand design.     

Syntheses and Crystal Structures of Two Complexes with 3-（3-Pyridyl）acrylic Acid

1 INTRODUCTION A recent feature in the development and progress of chemical research is the concern for molecular assemblies, ensembles, and all of structural aggre- gates[1]. The self-assembly of transition metal ions and N-containing organic ligands has been proven a popular approach for the construction of supramo- lecular architecture[2～7]. 3-(3-Pyridyl)acrylic acid is an excellent ligand, not only due to its prolific coor- dination sites but also to its potential hydrogen bon- ding…     

A Pyridine-copper Inclusion Complex of a New Tripodal Ligand

1 INTRODUCTION Numerous recent reports have been focused on the construction of supramolecular architectures by using some special tripodal ligands with aromatic ring platforms[1～5]. Mixing this kind of ligands with metal ions in a suitable solution generally yields typical 1D, 2D and 3D coordination polymers or large nanometer-sized cavities supposed to be use- ful for catalysis, molecular selection, ion exchange, specific chemical transformations et al.[6～11]. Now our group is inte…     

Crystal Structure and Antitumor Activity of Tri[2- [N-(4''''-methyl-benzylsulfonyl)amino]ethyl]-amine

1 INTRODUCTION The supramolecular architectures of tripodal ligands with special cavities have attracted much attention of chemists and biochemists because of their interesting structures and possible properties such as ion and molecular recognition, selective inclusion and important biological function[1～5]. However, their potential applications in supra- molecular and biological chemistry for constructing various complexes have not been clearly realized until recent years. Few crystal…     

Half-sandwich 1,3-Di-t-butylcyclopentadienyl Rhodium Complexes Containing Sulfido Ligands

Interest in the coordination chemistry of organo-transition metal complexescontaining sulfur ligands is continuing because they are involved in important catalyticprocesses[1 ,2 ] ,particularly hydrodesulfurization and hydrogenation reactions[3] and theyundergo a variety of reaction with metal species[4～ 6] . Although half-sandwichpentamethylcyclopentadienyl complexes with sulfido ligands are well known,only threetypes of half-sandwich compounds with chelating oligosulfido ligands have beendes…     

The role of 3d orbitals in the bonding of phosphorus compounds

Ab initio LCAO-MO-SCF calculations for several typical molecules containing phosphorushave been undertaken to study the role of phosphorus 3d orbitals in the bonding.It is emphasizedthat the discussion about the 3d orbital participation in bonding should be based on a reasonable choiceof basis sets and it seems suitable to choose the atomic orbitals in proper molecular environment asthe basis set.As an approximation,the optimized minimal STO-NG basis sets have been adoptedin the present paper.The results obtained well exhibit the model of 3d orbital participation in bonding.It is shown that under the influence of highly electronegative ligands the phosphorus 3d orbitals con-tract greatly,their energy levels drop considerably,and thus they can effectively participate in bond-ing.The presence of highly electronegative ligands seems necessary.The contribution of 3d orbitalsto bonding is achieved mainly through the concertedformation of σ bonds and p-d backbonds,thoughthe contribution to σ bonding is minor.The three-center,four-electron bond modelis only approxi-mately correct.The results of the present paper demonstrate that the model of 3d orbital participationin bonding favoured by experimental chemists is reasonable and possesses sound ground.     

Ethylene Oligomerization by (dppe)MCl_2 [M = Fe(II), Co(II),Ni(II)] Complexes/EAO

Transition-metal-catalyzed oligomerzation of ethylene is an important process to provide a-olefins in the C6~C20 range. In recent years, the catalytic behavior of late transition metal complexes containing bi- and tri-dentate ligands for oligomerization of ethylene to a-olefins has attracted much attention. When oligomerization of ethylene catalyzed by nickel diimine and Fe(II), Co(II) 2,6-bis(imino)pyridine catalysts, the oligomers with high average molecular weight were obtained1-5. Eth…     

VINYL POLYMERIZATION OF NORBORNENE CATALYZED BY [2-(2-BENZIMIDAZOLYL)-6-((1-ARYLIMINOETHYL)PYRIDYL)]NICKEL CHLORIDE/MAO SYSTEM

The catalytic system of[2-(2-benzimidazolyl)-6-((1-aryliminoethyl)pyridyl)]nickel chloride/MAO(methylalu- minoxane)was found to be good active for vinyl polymerization of norbornene and provided polymers with relative narrow molecular distributions.Various reaction parameters,such as the ratios of nickel precursor to MAO or monomer norbornene, and the nature of the ligands in complexes were carefully investigated to realize their effects on the catalytic activities, polymer molecular weight and molecular...     

ESR SPECTRA STUDY OF COPPER(Ⅱ) COORDINATION COMPLEXES OF PYRIDI

The ESR spectra of powdered samples of Cu(Ⅱ) complexes with pyridine and its sixhomologues and pyrrol, aniline, as well as their solutions are measured at 77K in this paper.The electronic levels of these complexes are calculated from the ESR spectral parameters.It is found that the non-pyridine ligands of complexes which can be substituted by pyridinemolecules of solvent in solution of pyridine/chloroform form Py_4Cu~(2 ). A molecular configura-tion is proposed. for Py_4Cu~(2 ) in solution. It is shown that the treatment with D_(2h) symmetryinstead of D_(4h) symmetry leads to a more satisfactory explanation of the ESR spectra.     

Molecular Simulations using Spherical Harmonics

Computer-aided drug design is to develop a chemical that binds to a target macromolecule known to play a key role in a disease state. In recognition of ligands by their protein receptors, molecular surfaces are often used because they represent the in-teracting part of molecules and they should reflex the comple-mentarity between ligand and receptor. However, assessing the surface complementarity by searching all relative position of two surfaces is often computationally expensive. The comple-mentarity of lobe-hole is very important in protein-ligand inter-actions. Spherical harmonic models based on expansions of spherical harmonic functions were used as a f‘mgerprint to ap-proximate the binding cavity and the ligand, respectively. This defines a new way to identify the complementarity between lobes and holes. The advantage of this method is that two spherical harmonic surfaces to be compared can be defined sep-arately. This method can be used as a filter to eliminate candi-dates among a large number of conformations, and it will speed up the docking procedure. Therefore, it is possible to select complementary ligands or complementary conformations of a ligand and the macromolecules, by comparing their fingerprints previously stored in a database.     

Molecular and Supramolecular Structures of a Nickel（Ⅱ） Complex with a Macrocyclic Ligand

1 INTRODUCTION The knowledge of all non-covalent interactions, such as strong and weak hydrogen bonds and p…p interactions, is important to the supramolecular chemistry, biochemistry, crystal engineering and material science[1～7]. Several mononuclear complexes of macrocyclic oxamido Schiff base ligands with phenyls have been used as 揷omplex ligands?to design polynuclear complexes[8～11]. Herein we report the molecular and crystal structures, CH贩稯 hy- drogen bonding and p…p stacki…     

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a Mononuclear Zn(II) Complex with Tridentate Schiff Base,Zn(C_(12)H_(18)N_2O)(NCS)_2

1 INTRODUCTION In recent years there has been considerable and increasing interest in the synthesis of transition metal complexes with multidentate Schiff base ligands[1~4] because such ligands can accommodate one, two or more metal centers and may synthesize homo and/or heteronuclear metal complexes with interesting ste- reochemistry[5, 6]. In addition, these metal complexes can be used for biological modeling applications, catalysis, design of molecular ferromagnet and mate- rials chemis…     

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of 1,4-Bis(2-hydroxymethylphenyl)-1,4-dioxabutane

1 INTRODUCTION Macrocyclic ligands and their metal complexes have received much attention due to their applications in ion transport, ion separation and as models in biomimic researches[1~7]. The synthetic methods of macrocyclic ligands and their metal complexes are mainly divided into three kinds[8]. The first one is synthesizing free ligand, then forming the metal complexes; the second is template synthesis; and the third is synthesizing the end-off or side-off precursor ligand, then c…     

Preface: special topic on fluorescent chemical/biological sensors and imaging

正There is currently considerable interest in the development of fluorescent molecular probes for use in sensitive sensing and imaging applications.The design,synthesis and application of fluorescent molecular probes that selectively and specifically respond to the presence of a specific analyte is a multidisciplinary research area involving numerous fields of modern science and medicine,including molecular biology,chemical biology,biophysics,clinical diagnosis and analytical/environmental chemistry,etc.For sensing application,advances in the understanding of molecular probe structure     

Langmuir-Blodgett Films and Calcium Ion Coordination of Biliverdin and Its Amphiphilic Derivatives

Up to now, the investigations of the chemistry of biliverdin and its analogs has been limited in organic solvents1-4. There is no report on organized molecular films of biliverdin and its derivatives. The structural organization and biophysical properties of biliverdin molecules in ordered molecular assemblies might be different from those in organic solvents, but similar to those in biological membranes in mammals. Therefore, biliverdin or its derivatives incorporated in ordered molecular fil…