A previously unrecognised hydronium di-cation in the crystal structure of a cucurbituril derivative

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 30, 2005, Pages 3791-3792

  Bernal, Ivan ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Uday ^a   Virovets, Alexander V ^b   Fedin, Vladimir P ^b   Clegg, William ^c  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b NIKOLAEV INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; CHLORIDE; CUCURBITURIL; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; SQUASH;

EID: 23744459459     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b505641c     Document Type: Article

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