Titanium compounds containing naturally occurring dye molecules

Wei-Hui Fang; Rosa Müller; Rajesh B Jethwa; Victor Riesgo-González; Ning Li; Sebastian D Pike; Andrew D Bond; He-Kuan Luo; Cheng Zhang; Dominic S Wright

doi:10.1039/d1dt03377h

Titanium compounds containing naturally occurring dye molecules

Dalton Trans. 2021 Nov 30;50(46):17202-17207. doi: 10.1039/d1dt03377h.

Authors

Wei-Hui Fang^{1

2}, Rosa Müller², Rajesh B Jethwa², Victor Riesgo-González², Ning Li^{2

3}, Sebastian D Pike², Andrew D Bond², He-Kuan Luo⁴, Cheng Zhang⁵, Dominic S Wright²

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
² Husuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK. dsw1000@cam.ac.uk.
³ Institute of Bioengineering and Bioimaging, 31 Biopolis Way, The Nanos, #07-01, Singapore 138669.
⁴ Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 2 Fusionopolis Way, #08-03, Innovis, Singapore 138634.
⁵ College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014, P. R. China.

PMID: 34783818
DOI: 10.1039/d1dt03377h

Abstract

A range of titanium compounds containing the naturally occurring dyes quinizarin (QH₂) and alizarin (AH₂) was synthesized and structurally characterized in the solid state. Among these is the first examples of a discrete metallocyclic arrangement formed exclusively using quinizarin ligands and the first examples of lanthanide containing titanium compounds of the alizarin family of ligands.