Issue 61, 2017
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Chemical Communications

Alkane-length sorting using activated pillar[5]arene crystals†

Tomoki Ogoshi, ORCID logo *ab   Ryuta Sueto,a   Yukie Hamada,a   Kazuki Doitomi,c   Hajime Hirao, ORCID logo bcd   Yoko Sakata,a   Shigehisa Akine, ORCID logo a   Takahiro Kakutaa  and  Tada-aki Yamagishia  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
E-mail: ogoshi@se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81-76-234-4800

b PRESTO, The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan

c Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Aveanue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

d Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore

Abstract

We report a simple and easy-to-operate method for separating n-alkanes: when we immersed activated pillar[5]arene crystals into a mixture of n-alkanes with various chain lengths, the crystals preferentially took up n-alkanes with longer chain lengths.

Graphical abstract: Alkane-length sorting using activated pillar[5]arene crystals

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC04454B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Jun 2017
Accepted
10 Jul 2017
First published
10 Jul 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 8577-8580

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Alkane-length sorting using activated pillar[5]arene crystals

T. Ogoshi, R. Sueto, Y. Hamada, K. Doitomi, H. Hirao, Y. Sakata, S. Akine, T. Kakuta and T. Yamagishi, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 8577 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC04454B

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