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Land-based measures to mitigate climate change : potential and feasibility by country
Get PDFAcknowledgements The design of this study and the data generated was guided by expert consultations and relied on the help of many. We thank all those who contributed: Sierra Gladfelter, Jo House, Mercedes Bustamante, Susan Cook-Patton, Sara Leavitt, Nick Wolff, and Thomas Worthington. We thank M.-J. Valentino at Imaginary Office for helping to design the first three figures. This work was supported by the authors’ institutions and funding sources, including the Climate and Land-use Alliance, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality, and the EU H2020 projects VERIFY and ENGAGE (grant agreement no. 821471).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Overlapping Intellectual Property Doctrines: Election of Rights versus Selection of Remedies
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Supramolecular schiff base coordination chemistry : blueprints for self-assembling metallocavitands and nanotubes
No full textHeptametallic zinc(II) and cadmium(II) clusters have been isolated after reacting
the metal-acetate salts with large diameter [3+3] Schiff base macrocycles. Two tetrazinc
complexes have been characterized and identified as intermediates in the formation of the
heptazinc complexes. The heptametallic complexes are, in fact, templated by the Schiff
base macrocycles, a process that has been investigated with ¹H NMR spectroscopy and
single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In the solid-state the heptametallic complexes have a
bowl-shaped geometry, reminiscent of organic cavitands, leading to them being called
metallocavitands. Solid-state investigation of the heptazinc and heptacadmium
metallocavitands showed they organize into capsules with a cavity volume of 150 and
215 ų, respectively. Solution dimerization was also observed in aromatic solvents and
N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF). The thermodynamics of dimerization have been
quantified by van’t Hoff analyses of association constants measured with variabletemperature,
variable-concentration ¹H NMR spectroscopy. Both metallocavitands
exhibit entropy-driven dimerization in all solvents in which dimerization occurs. Unusual
for dimerization of cavitands, this entropy-driven process can be attributed to the
expulsion of solvent from the monomeric cavity upon dimerization.
Inside the cavity of heptacadmium metallocavitands is a μ₃-OH ligand where the
proton is located at the base of the cavity and is capable of hydrogen bonding with guest
molecules. The μ₃-OH proton resonance is observable in low temperature 1H NMR
spectra and exhibits two-bond J-coupling with three cadmium ions. Within capsules of
the heptacadmium metallocavitands there are eight Lewis-acidic sites accessible to guest
molecules, six unsaturated cadmium(II) centers and two μ₃-OH ligands. Solid-state
analysis shows that two DMF molecules are encapsulated in the heptacadmium capsule
where they each simultaneously exhibit a host-guest hydrogen-bond and a dative metalligand
interaction.
New methodology has been developed that facilitates synthesis of polydentate
[2+2] Schiff base macrocycles with unsymmetrical salphen pockets. Also a [3+3]
macrocycle with triptycenyl substituents has been synthesized to prohibit alkali-metal
induced solution aggregation.
The one-pot twelve component head-to-tail self-assembly of Pt₄ rings directed by
chelating imine-pyridyl donors has been demonstrated. These supramolecules exhibit
extensive columnar organization in both solution and the solid-state, a phenomenon that
imparts liquid crystalline properties on the macrocycles.Science, Faculty ofChemistry, Department ofGraduat
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