Self-assembly of ordered water tetramers in an encapsulated [Br(H2O)12]− complex

Musabbir A. Saeed; Avijit Pramanik; Bryan M. Wong; Syed Ataul Haque; Douglas R. Powell; Dillip Kumar Chand; Md. Alamgir Hossain

doi:10.1039/C2CC30767G

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Self-assembly of ordered water tetramers in an encapsulated [Br(H₂O)₁₂]⁻ complex†

Musabbir A. Saeed,^a Avijit Pramanik,^a Bryan M. Wong,^b Syed Ataul Haque,^a Douglas R. Powell,^c Dillip Kumar Chand^d and Md. Alamgir Hossain*^a

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^b Materials Chemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA

^c Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

^d Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India

Abstract

An unanticipated anion–water cluster is assembled by one bromide and three highly-ordered “water tetramers” within the cavity of a receptor, providing a perfect C₃ symmetric propeller-shaped bromide–water cluster of [Br(H₂O)₁₂]⁻.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC30767G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 03 Feb 2012
Accepted: 20 Apr 2012
First published: 20 Apr 2012

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Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 8631-8633

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Self-assembly of ordered water tetramers in an encapsulated [Br(H₂O)₁₂]⁻ complex

M. A. Saeed, A. Pramanik, B. M. Wong, S. A. Haque, D. R. Powell, D. K. Chand and Md. A. Hossain, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 8631 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC30767G

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