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Molecular Encapsulation of Gases

Dmitry M. Rudkevich ^A ^B and Alexander V. Leontiev ^A

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^A Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019-0065, USA.

^B Author to whom correspondence should be addressed (e-mail: rudkevich@uta.edu).

Dmitry M. Rudkevich is an associate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington. He started his career at the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine in the late 1980s and moved to the Netherlands in 1992 to work with David N. Reinhoudt at the University of Twente. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the same university (1995). Since 1996 he has been in the United States spending two years as a postdoc with Julius Rebek, first at MIT and later at The Scripps Research Institute, then as a research assistant professor at Scripps (1997–2001) before moving toTexas. His research interests are broadly in molecular recognition.

Alexander V. Leontiev is a postdoctoral fellow in Dmitri Rudkevich's laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Moscow State University with Nikolai S. Zefirov in 2001 and subsequently spent a postdoctoral year with Mark Mascal at UCLA. His research interests are in synthetic organic chemistry.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 57(8) 713-722 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH04102
Submitted: 23 April 2004 Accepted: 17 June 2004 Published: 10 August 2004

Abstract

The principles and techniques of molecular encapsulation, as applied to environmentally, biologically, and commercially important gases, are reviewed. The gases may be trapped within natural (clathrates, cyclodextrins) or synthetic (cryptophanes, carcerands, calixarenes) cavities. The physical and chemical features of the cavities are key to understanding which gases may be trapped and to what extent. These trapping materials possess a host of applications, from gas sensing and separation to acting as storage devices and microreaction vessels.

Acknowledgements

Financial support is acknowledged from the Donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS PRF 37440-AC4) and the US National Science Foundation (CHE 0350958). D.M.R. is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.

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