Sunggoo Yun

TL;DR: A positively charged tripodal receptor with nitro groups in the imidazolium rings was designed, synthesized, and characterized for its anion binding strength and shows strong affinity and high selectivity for Cl- through (C-H)+- - - -X(-) hydrogen bonds.

TL;DR: The association constant and free energy gain of the N-butyl receptor 2 for F(-) in acetonitrile were measured to be 2.1 x 10(5) M(-1) and -7.25 kcal/mol, respectively, showing that the receptor has a high affinity for F (F(-)) in highly polar organic solvents.

TL;DR: Assessment of various calculation methods employed for both the design of the CHQ nanotubes and the study of their assembly process finds that ab initio and density functional theories and first principles calculations using ultrasoft pseudopotential plane wave methods are employed.

TL;DR: These reliable results elucidate not only the self-assembly phenomena based on the H-bond relay but also the solvent effect on the SHB strength, based on a partitioning scheme of the interaction energy components.

TL;DR: A new molecular system, 2,11-dithio[4,4]metametaquinocyclophane containing a quinone moiety, was designed and synthesized in this paper.