Anion directed conformational diversities of an arene based hexa-amide receptor and recognition of the [F4(H2O)6]4− cluster†
Abstract
A benzene platform based new hexa-amide receptor (L) has shown conformational diversities via isolation of aaabbb (A), aabaab (B) and aaaaaa (C) conformers upon recognition of acetate, nitrate and hydrated-fluoride [F4(H2O)6]4− respectively in the solid state. Solution and DFT calculation studies show fluoride binding selectivity of L.