Anion Recognition by Charge Neutral Electron-deficient Arene Receptors

De-Xian Wang; Mei-Xiang Wang

doi:10.2533/chimia.2011.939

Anion Recognition by Charge Neutral Electron-deficient Arene Receptors

Authors

De-Xian Wang Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190, China. dxwang@iccas.ac.cn
Mei-Xiang Wang The Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry & Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education) Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, China. wangmx@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2011.939

Keywords:

Anion-π interactions, Anion recognition, Charge neutral electron-deficient arenes, Synthetic receptors

Abstract

Anion-? interactions are newly emerging non-covalent interactions and have attracted considerable attention from both theoreticians and supramolecular chemists. This short review article summarizes the recent advances in anion recognition using charge neutral electron-deficient aromatic compounds.