Crystalline Supramolecular Gyroscope with a Water Molecule as an Ultrasmall Polar Rotator Modulated by Charge-Assisted Hydrogen Bonds

An organometallic half-sandwich supramolecular complex {K(18-Crown-6)(ηn-C6H5B(C6H5)3)} (n = 1–6) exhibiting a reversible breaking-symmetry phase transition and switchable dielectric behaviour

An organometallic supramolecular crystal of {K(18-crown-6)(ηⁿ-C₆H₅B(C₆H₅)₃)} (n = 1–6) has a half-sandwich structure and exhibits a reversible breaking-symmetry phase transition and switchable dielectric behavior.

Reversible phase transition and switchable dielectric behaviors triggered by rotation and order-disorder motions of crowns

Compound 1 shows apparent step-like dielectric changes near the phase transition, which are triggered by the synergetic rotation motion of 18-C-6 crown ether cycles and hexafluorophosphate anions.

A high temperature reversible phase transition in a supramolecular complex of 15-crown-5 with tetraphenylboron sodium

High temperature (391 K) reversible phase transition and large thermal hysteresis (19 K) was observed in 15-crown-5 clathrates: [Na(15-crown-5)][BPh₄] (15-crown-5 = 1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxacyclopentadecane, NaBPh₄ = sodium tetraphenylboron).

Reply to the ‘Comment’ on “Lewis acidic ionic liquids of crown ether complex cations: preparation and applications in organic reactions” by M. Swadźba-Kwaśny, RSC Adv., 2017, , DOI: 10.1039/c7ra05921c

We published recently in RSC Advances a paper, reporting a new group of Lewis acidic ionic liquids that were prepared by the combination of 18-crown-6, alkali metal chloride (NaCl or KCl) and metal chloride (FeCl₃, AlCl₃, ZnCl₂) and applied in organic reactions as catalysts.

A crystalline molecular gyrotop with a biphenylene dirotor and its temperature-dependent birefringence

A crystalline molecular gyrotop with a biphenylene dirotor showed a reduction in the birefringence with increasing temperature.