Trapping cations in specific positions in tuneable "artificial cell" channels:: New nanochemistry perspectives
Trapping cations in specific positions in tuneable "artificial cell" channels:: New nanochemistry perspectives
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200352358
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发表时间:
2003-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Zhang, LJ
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作者:
Müller, A;Das, SK;Zhang, LJ
Molecular dimensioned holes can serve as filters but also trap molecules with well-defined shapes. Whereas a large number of porous materials with cages and tunnels exist as extended structures,[1] as yet not much is known about well-defined, discrete (molecular) nanoporous species. Processes that refer to the entrance of substrates (eg of cations) are of particular interest if the affinity of specific substrates to specific capsule areas can be predicted. This is now possible for nanosized spherical capsules based on the robust fundamental skeleton (pent) 12 (linker) 30ffi {(Mo) Mo5O21 (H2O) 6} 12 {Mo2O4 (ligand)} 30 [2, 3] which has sizeable pores, finely sculpturable interiors and, in between, tuneable functionalized channels with unprecedented molecular-scale filter properties. These will be discussed here for the first time. Most importantly, the channel functionalities as well as the capsule size and charge can be extensively varied, while charge modulations lead to related changes in the affinity to cations! Herein we show that different substrates/cations can be fixed at well-defined positions above, below, and especially in the channels.[3] This situation allows us to study, in principle, new types of molecular transport phenomena, including osmotic-type ones, on the nanoscale, and shows properties of a “nano-ion chromatograph”.[4] Additionally, one can construct new geometries such as interpenetrating solids from entering cations owing to the fact that we have a multitude of different as well as equivalent sites in the channels, pores, and in the interior (see also ref.[3b]). This also allows us to study properties of matter under confined conditions. For the investigations into the uptake of cations and substrates, we used the known capsule 1a [3] as well as the new