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Sung Ok Kang

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Amide-based ligands for anion coordination.

Anion recognition is an active area of research in supramolecular chemistry. The rapidly increasing amount of structural data now allows anion coordination chemistry to be formalized in terms of coordination numbers and geometries based on hydrogen-bonding interactions between the host (ligand) and the guest (anion). This Minireview targets just one class of anion receptors, namely, amide-based ligands. The structural data for a series of five anion shapes are compiled according to coordination number, and distinct commonalities are observed within a given anion topology. The results also indicate a number of similarities between the coordination of anions and transition-metal ions.

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Anion binding motifs: topicity and charge in amidocryptands.

An expanded amidocryptand with propyl linkages provides multitopic sites for binding anions and water molecules. Upon quaternization of the two bridgehead amines, the molecular shape changes from an inverted Y to that of a bowl, which is filled with water and topped by the anion.

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Encapsulated sulfates: insight to binding propensities.

Two crystal structures of sulfate inclusion complexes in an aza- and amido-cryptand represent the first examples of encapsulated sulfate in synthetic cryptand receptors and indicate penta- and octa-coordination, respectively.

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Fluoride-facilitated deuterium exchange from DMSO-d6 to polyamide-based cryptands.

Multiple deuterium exchange between DMSO-d6 and amide hydrogens in two hexaamido cryptand fluoride receptors has been verified by 19F and 2H NMR and FAB mass spectral studies. Structural results for one of the complexes indicate a tricapped trigonal prism hydrogen bond coordination geometry around an encapsulated fluoride, with hydrogen bonds from fluoride to six amide and three phenyl hydrogens.

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New polyamide cryptand for anion binding.

An anion receptor derived from a tren-based amide cryptand with pyridine spacers has been synthesized and characterized. Two crystal structures are reported: the hydrochloride salt and the fluoride complex. The cryptand shows extremely high binding with fluoride ion in DMSO-d6. Both the crystal structure and solution 19F NMR data indicate an encapsulated fluoride ion with very high symmetry.

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Elite new anion ligands: polythioamide macrocycles.

Prototypes for a new class of polythioamide-based macrocycles have been synthesized and anion-binding capabilities assessed. Results indicate higher anion binding for H(2)PO(4)(-), HSO(4)(-), and F(-) for monocycles, but somewhat lessened binding capabilities for bicycles compared with amide corollaries.

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Anion receptors: a new class of amide/quaternized amine macrocycles and the chelate effect.

A new class of tetraamide macrocyclic receptors for anions with two quaternized amine functionalities exhibited higher affinities for anions compared with the corresponding neutral amides. In two crystal structures of halide complexes of the prototypes with phenyl and pyridine spacers, the anions are held by hydrogen bonding with the amide hydrogens. The pyridine analogues display higher affinities in general than the phenyl systems, a phenomenon which is attributed to the anion version of the chelate effect.

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