ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Aza-Crown Ethers in Solutions: An Isotropic Menagerie and First Step Towards Macrocycle-Functionalised Membranes

Abstract: Aza-crown ethers, a specialized class of crown ethers containing nitrogen atoms within their macrocyclic ring, are highly effective for selective ion binding. With an overarchng aim to transfer their controllable and selective solution-based chemistry into membrane materials, we first need to understand the behaviour of these macrocycles in solution with regards to their solvation, differing macrocycle-solvent interactions, and how this changes upon complexation. As such we are synthesising a family of isotopically differentiated aza-crown macrocycles with controllable macrocycle-solvent interactions, with the deuteration facility hosting a member of our group for deuterated synthesis using our synthetic protocols. This large proposal on NIMROD is necessary to disentangle intramolecular and intermolecular correlations in the local liquid structure of macrocycle solutions, and is crucial to produce local models to be used when extending research on such cycles into membrane nanostructures.

Principal Investigator: Dr Fabrizia Foglia
Experimenter: Dr Tom Headen
Experimenter: Mr Leonardo Santoni
Experimenter: Miss Phoebe Yu
Experimenter: Mr Adam Morris
Local Contact: Dr Tristan Youngs
Experimenter: Dr Andrew Seel
Experimenter: Dr Keenan Smith

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2510694

ISIS Experiment Number: RB2510694

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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