Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (3): 412.

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Molecular Recognition of Dinuclear Salen Zinc Complex for Small Molecules with Nitrogen

ZHU Bi-Xue, RUAN Wen-Juan, GAO Feng, CAO Xiao-Hui, ZHU Zhi-Ang   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • Received:2004-03-10 Online:2005-03-10 Published:2005-03-10

Abstract: A novel dinuclear Salen zinc complex was synthesized and characterized. The coordination number and association constants of axial coordination reaction of complex C10-(Salen Zn)2 towards imidazole, pyridine, DABCO and Pyrazine were measured by means of spectra technique. The coordination number for Im, Py and pyrazine were all 2, but for DABCO was only 1. The association constants of host-guest system decreased in the order of K0(Im)>K0(DABCO)>K0(Pyrazine)> K0(Py). The thermodynamic parameters ΔrHm0, ΔrSm0 and ΔrGm0 were determined. The results showed that recognition process was exothermic and entropy decrease. In addition, the studies by means of 1H NMR and the conformations with minimal energy of the host-guest were sought by simulated annealing method, which gave the reasonable explanation for the conformation of the host C10-(Salen Zn)2 and DABCO forming complex, the spectral changes of host-guest systems were explained by quantum chemical calculations.

Key words: Dinuclear Salen Zn complex, Guest, Molecular recognition, Conformation analysis

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