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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 129-136Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-009-0526-x
Keywords
Anion receptor; DFT; Naphthalene; Oxalate; Thiourea
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- Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University
- Postgraduate Education and Research in Chemistry (PERCH)
- Supramolecular Chemistry Research Unit
- Faculty of Science
- Mahasarakham University
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
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The thiourea based receptor containing naphthalene groups (1), has been successfully designed and synthesized for application as an oxalate receptor. A density functional theory at B3LYP/6-31G(d, p) level of theory has been applied to predict the binding ability between 1 and selected anions, i.e., oxalate, malonate, succinate, glutarate, dihydrogen phosphate, and hydrogen sulphate. Calculation results point out that receptor 1 shows the strongest interaction to oxalate ion with the binding free energy of 172.48 kcal mol(-1). The recognition ability of 1 to the selected anions has been also investigated by means of the absorption and emission techniques. Experimental results are in excellent agreement with the calculation data in which receptor 1 shows highly selective for oxalate ion over the other anions with log beta of 3.82 (0.02) M-1 by means of the size of binding cavity.
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