Complex stability steric effects

The formation of the charge-transfer complexes considered to be of the TT-donor-TT-acceptor type for most of the system discussed and their equilibrium concentrations are not only influenced by the donor and acceptor strength of the respective molecule but also by resonance stabilization, steric effects, van der Waals forces, and hydrogen bonding. Aromatic solvents are also considered tt... 

Upon formulating these relationships, phenols with branched alkyl substituents were not included in the data of a-cyclodextrin systems, though they were included in (3-cyclodextrin systems. In all the above equations, the n term was statistically significant at the 99.5 % level of confidence, indicating that the hydrophobic interaction plays a decisive role in the complexation of cyclodextrin with phenols. The Ibrnch term was statistically significant at the 99.5% level of confidence for (3-cyclo-dextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols. The stability of the complexes increases with an increasing number of branches in substituents. This was ascribed to the attractive van der Waals interaction due to the close fitness of the branched substituents to the (3-cyclodextrin cavity. The steric effect of substituents was also observed for a-cyclodextrin complexes with p-substituted phenols (Eq. 22). In this case, the B parameter was used in place of Ibmch, since no phenol with a branched... 

When supported complexes are the catalysts, two types of ionic solid were used zeolites and clays. The structures of these solids (microporous and lamellar respectively) help to improve the stability of the complex catalyst under the reaction conditions by preventing the catalytic species from undergoing dimerization or aggregation, both phenomena which are known to be deactivating. In some cases, the pore walls can tune the selectivity of the reaction by steric effects. The strong similarities of zeolites with the protein portion of natural enzymes was emphasized by Herron.20 The protein protects the active site from side reactions, sieves the substrate molecules, and provides a stereochemically demanding void. Metal complexes have been encapsulated in zeolites, successfully mimicking metalloenzymes for oxidation reactions. Two methods of synthesis of such encapsulated/intercalated complexes have been tested, as follows. 

Electron spin resonance (ESR) signals, detected from phosphinated polystyrene-supported cationic rhodium catalysts both before and after use (for olefinic and ketonic substrates), have been attributed to the presence of rhodium(II) species (348). The extent of catalysis by such species generally is uncertain, although the activity of one system involving RhCls /phosphinated polystyrene has been attributed to rho-dium(II) (349). Rhodium(II) phosphine complexes have been stabilized by steric effects (350), which could pertain to the polymer alternatively (351), disproportionation of rhodium(I) could lead to rhodium(II) [Eq. (61)]. The accompanying isolated metal atoms in this case offer a potential source of ESR signals as well as the catalysis. 

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