Inclusion compounds differential scanning calorimetry

Box 9.1 Thermogravimetric Analysis and Differential Scanning Calorimetry in the Study of Inclusion Compounds... 

Thermal gravimetry (TG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) are useful techniques in the analysis of inclusion compounds. If we consider the desolvation of a host-guest compound with a volatile guest ... 

In addition to the techniques previously mentioned, a wide variety of methods has been used to characterize the new inclusion compounds in solution and in the solid state, in both directly practice-oriented and theoretical papers, to elucidate the relationship between the relative strength of interaction and some surface parameters of the guest molecules. Complexes obtained in solution are frequently studied by phase-solubility, to obtain the stoichiometric ratio for the complex and an apparent stability constant [12-14], but spectral studies including UV, infrared, fluorescence, and NMR spectroscopy (see Section 10.3 and Chapter 9) can also be used for characterization [6, 15-17]. Inclusion compounds obtained in the sohd state are frequently characterized using infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (Chapter 7), scanning electron microscopy techniques [18, 19] (Section 10.6), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) (Chapter 8) [20, 21], and/or fluorescence (Section 10.3) and voltammetric measurements (Section 10.5) [16, 22]. 

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