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Jozef Hodyl PhD Thesis - Theses - Flinders University

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contact with an aqueous environment and therefore water soluble guest species. Thiswould, in essence, endow the receptor part of the material with a greater degree ofwettability enabling the inclusion process to occur in a single phase. Accordingly,guest inclusion studies were performed with two silica immobilised receptormaterials Si-GPS-[Cd(DiPTrac)](ClO 4 ) 2 , 95, and Si-GPS-[Cd(TriPTrac)](ClO 4 ) 2 , 96,appended with hydroxy terminated polyether (HTPE) moieties at the periphery ofeach receptor's cavity. Both materials were expected to possess a level of wettabilitythrough increased hydrogen bonding between their ethereal and hydroxy oxygensand water molecules. Solubility of the silica free materials was evaluated bysuspending 50 mg of each of the precursor macrocyclic compounds DiPTrac, 47, andTriPTrac, 48, in 1 cm -3 of water and gradually adding a small amount of water toeach over time until it was completely dissolved. Solubility in water at 298 Kobtained for these compounds was 0.007 mol L -1 for 47 and, 0.032 mol L -1 for 48.These values are significant in the context of Trac, 46, which has essentially zerosolubility in water. Furthermore, when water is added to either of materials 95 or 96the resultant suspension is visibly different than that for 94. A perceivabletranslucence with the appearance of the material blending with the aqueousenvironment gives the impression that these materials are more wettable. The resultsfrom the study of the uptake of hydroxybenzoate guests with Si-GPS-[Cd(DiPTrac)](ClO 4 ) 2 , 95, and Si-GPS-[Cd(TriPTrac)](ClO 4 ) 2 , 96, are given inTable 6.5. The percent inclusion values for p-hydroxybenzoate and m-hydroxybenzoate for all three materials do not vary greatly. For o-hydroxybenzoateand 2,6-dihydroxybenzoate the immobilised HTPE materials show very differentpercent inclusion values. Si-GPS-[Cd(DiPTrac)](ClO 4 ) 2 , 95, exhibits similar bindingto Si-GPS-[Cd(Trac)](ClO 4 ) 2 , 94, but Si-GPS-[Cd(TriPTrac)](ClO 4 ) 2 , 96, includes105

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