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EPSRC Reference:	GR/M74030/01
Title:	HETERODITOPIC RECEPTORS FOR ANION AND CATION BINDING
Principal Investigator:	Beer, Professor PD
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Department:	Oxford Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Oxford
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 May 2000	Ends:	30 April 2003	Value (£):	66,518
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Co-ordination Chemistry
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Environment Water No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The project is concerned with a new area of co-ordination chemistry, the design and syntheses of heteroditopic receptors for the simultaneous complexation of anionic and cationic guest species, ion-pair recognition. The receptor host framework contains binding sites for anionic and cationic guests covalently linked together and fashioned to be selective for target ion-pair group 1 metal salts and zwitterionic guests. Using a variety of spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques extensive co-ordination studies will be elucidate selectivity trends and the mutual anion-cation co-operative, synergistic and allosteric properties these ditopic systems display. Neutral ditopic receptors will be prepared specifically for solubilisation, extraction and selective carrier-assisted transportation of metal salts across lipophilic liquid membranes.
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