Brønsted Acid/Base Site Isolated in a Pentanuclear Scaffold

Misa Tomoda; Mio Kondo; Hitoshi Izu; Shigeyuki Masaoka

doi:10.1002/chem.202300089

Brønsted Acid/Base Site Isolated in a Pentanuclear Scaffold

Chemistry. 2023 Feb 1;29(7):e202300089. doi: 10.1002/chem.202300089. Epub 2023 Jan 23.

Authors

Misa Tomoda^{1

2

3}, Mio Kondo^{1

4

5}, Hitoshi Izu^{1

2}, Shigeyuki Masaoka¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan), .
² Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787, Japan.
³ Department of Structural Molecular Sciences, SOKENDAI [The Graduate University for Advanced Studies], Shonan Village, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0193, Japan.
⁴ Innovative Catalysis Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
⁵ JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.

PMID: 36690582
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202300089

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Shigeyuki Masaoka at Osaka University. The image depicts a Brønsted acid/base pair based on a pentanuclear scaffold, and the formation thermodynamically metastable state of H⁺ by the steric isolation of a Brønsted acid/base site. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202203253.