Self-assembly of ordered water tetramers in an encapsulated [Br(H2O)12]− complex†
Musabbir A. Saeed,Avijit Pramanik,Bryan M. Wong,Syed Ataul Haque,Douglas R. Powell,Dillip Kumar Chand,Md. Alamgir Hossain
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 04/20/2012 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C2CC30767G
Abstract
An unanticipated anion–water cluster is assembled by one bromide and three highly-ordered “water tetramers” within the cavity of a receptor, providing a perfect C3 symmetric propeller-shaped bromide–water cluster of [Br(H2O)12]−.
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