Alkane-length sorting using activated pillar[5]arene crystals

Tomoki Ogoshi; Ryuta Sueto; Yukie Hamada; Kazuki Doitomi; Hajime Hirao; Yoko Sakata; Shigehisa Akine; Takahiro Kakuta; Tada-Aki Yamagishi

doi:10.1039/c7cc04454b

Alkane-length sorting using activated pillar[5]arene crystals

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jul 27;53(61):8577-8580. doi: 10.1039/c7cc04454b.

Authors

Tomoki Ogoshi¹, Ryuta Sueto², Yukie Hamada², Kazuki Doitomi³, Hajime Hirao⁴, Yoko Sakata², Shigehisa Akine², Takahiro Kakuta², Tada-Aki Yamagishi²

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan. ogoshi@se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp and PRESTO, The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.
² Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan. ogoshi@se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
³ Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Aveanue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
⁴ PRESTO, The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan and Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Aveanue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China and Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371, Singapore.

PMID: 28718474
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc04454b

Abstract

We report a simple and easy-to-operate method for separating n-alkanes: when we immersed activated pillar[5]arene crystals into a mixture of n-alkanes with various chain lengths, the crystals preferentially took up n-alkanes with longer chain lengths.