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Cover Feature: Chemical Potential of the Solvent: A Crucial Player for Rationalizing Host–Guest Affinities (Chem. Eur. J. 66/2017)
Author(s) -
Baudet Karine,
Guerra Sebastiano,
Piguet Claude
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201704106
Subject(s) - affinities , solvent , chemistry , titration , chemical species , chemical reaction , chemical physics , computational chemistry , stereochemistry , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry
Host–guest assembly processes involving neutral partners in solution are usually thought to only involve the chemical reorganization of the solvated species, whereas the bulk solvent behaves as an innocent matrix. However, experimental data collected during titrations of neutral tridentate ligands (orange receptor) with neutral lanthanum transporters (colored bowl) are stubborn as mules because they point that the chemical potential of the solvent is seriously disrupted by the progress of the chemical reaction (vortex). More information can be found in the Full Paper by C. Piguet et al. on page 16787.