A [Ce21] keplerate

Angelos B Canaj; Milosz Siczek; Tadeusz Lis; Mark Murrie; Euan K Brechin; Constantinos J Milios

doi:10.1039/c7dt01883e

A [Ce₂₁] keplerate

Dalton Trans. 2017 Jun 28;46(24):7677-7680. doi: 10.1039/c7dt01883e. Epub 2017 Jun 7.

Authors

Angelos B Canaj¹, Milosz Siczek², Tadeusz Lis², Mark Murrie³, Euan K Brechin⁴, Constantinos J Milios¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, The University of Crete, Voutes 71003, Herakleion, Greece. komil@uoc.gr.
² Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Joliot-Curie 14, Wroclaw 50-383, Poland.
³ WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK. Mark.Murrie@glasgow.ac.uk.
⁴ EaStCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, David Brewster Road, Edinburgh, UK EH9 3FJ, UK. E.Brechin@ed.ac.uk.

PMID: 28590003
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt01883e

Abstract

The solvothermal reaction between Ce(NO₃)₃·6H₂O, 2-amino-isobutyric acid, 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde and 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol in MeOH, in the presence of base, leads to the formation of a unique [CeCe ] keplerate cage.