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Inclusion by a substituted binaphthyl host: structures and kinetics of desolvation |
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| Authors: | Luigi R. Nassimbeni Hong Su Kate Davies Edwin Weber |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry , University of Cape Town , Rondebosch, 7701 , Cape Town , South Africa luigi.nassimbeni@uct.ac.za;3. Department of Chemistry , University of Cape Town , Rondebosch, 7701 , Cape Town , South Africa;4. Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universit?t, Bergakademie Freiberg , Leipziger, Strasse 29, D-09596 , Freiberg/Sachen , Germany |
| Abstract: | The host compound 2,2′-bis(hydroxydiphenylmethyl)-1,1′-binaphthyl displays a remarkably constant conformation, which is governed chiefly by an intramolecular O–H…O hydrogen bond. Its inclusion compound with chloroform has been characterised and the dehydration product affords the corresponding oxepine with significantly different conformation. |
| Keywords: | binaphthyl host dehydration product X-ray crystal structure conformational analysis kinetics |