Metal cations recognition by bowl-shaped N -pyrrolic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

Daria SzelągJakub S Cyniak Joachim Ażgin Jakub A Wagner Marcin Lindner Wojciech Wróblewski Artur Kasprzak

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2024)

Bowl-shaped, nitrogen-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were examined for the first time as molecular receptors for the recognition of metal cations. Potentiometric and spectrofluorimetric assays, supported with density functional theory computations, revealed that the title compounds recognise metal cations with a special focus on caesium (Cs + ) cations.

Keyphrases

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
ionic liquid
density functional theory
molecular dynamics
high throughput
single cell