Abstract
From extraction experiments and γ-activity measurements, the exchange extraction constant corresponding to the equilibrium Ag+(aq) + 1⋅Cs+(nb) ⇆ 1⋅Ag+(nb) + Cs+(aq) taking part in the two-phase water–nitrobenzene system (where 1 = hexaarylbenzene-based receptor; aq = aqueous phase, nb = nitrobenzene phase) was evaluated to be log 10Kex(Ag+, 1⋅Cs+) = −1.0±0.1. Further, the stability constant of the hexaarylbenzene-based receptor⋅Ag+ complex (abbreviation 1⋅Ag+) in nitrobenzene saturated with water, was calculated at a temperature of 25 °C: log 10βnb(1⋅Ag+) = 5.5±0.2. By using quantum mechanical DFT calculations, the most probable structure of the 1⋅Ag+ complex species was solved. In this complex having C3 symmetry, the cation Ag+ synergistically interacts with the polar ethereal oxygen fence and with the central hydrophobic benzene ring via cation–π interaction.
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