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New Impetus for Inorganic Host‐Guest Chemistry
Author(s) -
Reuter Hans
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199211851
Subject(s) - neopentane , supramolecular chemistry , chemistry , crystallography , ion , dimer , host–guest chemistry , atom (system on chip) , inorganic chemistry , stereochemistry , nanotechnology , molecule , crystal structure , materials science , organic chemistry , computer science , embedded system
Already in 1826 Berzelius described (NH 4 ) 3 [(PO 4 )Mo 12 O 36 ]. Its anion consists of a shell of twelve MoO 6 octahedrons surrounding a P atom, but can also be described as a central phosphate ion whose O atoms form part of the shell. Related to this ancient chemistry are more recent findings in inorganic supramolecular chemistry, which include results as diverse as the characterization of Cd(CN) 2 · neopentane, in which the host Cd(CN) 2 forms a network structure trapping neopentane within its cavities in an ordered fashion, and the binding of a NH 4 Cl dimer in a giant anionic cage, described by A. Müller et al. in this issue (see p. 1192).