Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance ›› 2004, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (1): 1-15.

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HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTION IN COBALTIC SUPRAMOLECULAR COMPLEXES—STUDIED 59Co NMR AND MOLECULAR MODELLING

 ZHOU Ping1*, AU-YANG S C F2   

  1. 1.The Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Ministry of Educati on. Macromolecular Science Department, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
    2.Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Received:2003-08-18 Revised:2002-09-15 Online:2004-03-05 Published:2004-03-05
  • Supported by:

    The project was supported by NSFC (No. 20274009, 29974004).

Abstract:

The hydrogen bonding interactions in a series of cobaltic supramolecular complexes [12] aneN4[Co(CN)6], [18] aneN6[Co(CN)6], [24]aneN8[Co(CN)6], [16] aneN4[Co(CN)6], [24] aneN6[Co(CN)6] and [32] aneN8[Co(CN)6] were studies and found to be closely related to the molecular conformations in the aqueous solution. Such interactions caused the 59Co chemical shifts to move towards upfield, and the quadrupolar interaction to change as well. It was observed in this study that stronger hydrogen bonding resulted in larger upfield shift of the 59Co chemical shifts and higher quadrupolar interaction in the cobaltic supramolecular complexes. On the other hand, larger supramolecular sizes resulted in longer molecular rotational correlation time τand shorter 59Co longitudinal relaxation time (T1).  In summary, 59Co NMR proves to be an ideal probe to investigate the second sphere or weak interaction in the cobaltic supramolecular complexes in addition to the small molecules.

Key words: 59Co NMR, hydrogen bonding interaction, supramolecular complex