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

Tomoki OgoshiRyuta SuetoYukie HamadaKazuki DoitomiHajime HiraoYoko SakataShigehisa AkineTakahiro KakutaTada-Aki Yamagishi

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2018)

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.

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