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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2022

Redox-Switchable Chalcogen Bonding for Anion Recognition and Sensing.

Robert Hein, Andrew Docker, Jason J Davis, Paul D Beer

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Redox-Switchable Poly-Lewis Acids Allow the Controlled Release of Guests.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  9. Determining Ion-Pair Binding Affinities of Heteroditopic Receptor Systems.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2024
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  10. Solvent effects in anion recognition.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Robert HeinDepartment of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-8567-0924
Andrew DockerDepartment of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.
Jason J DavisDepartment of Chemistry, Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-7734-1709
Paul D BeerDepartment of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-0810-9716
Mansfield University · USUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inspired by the success of its related sigma-hole congener halogen bonding (XB), chalcogen bonding (ChB) is emerging as a powerful noncovalent interaction with a plethora of applications in supramolecular chemistry and beyond. Despite its increasing importance, the judicious modulation of ChB donor strength remains a formidable challenge. Herein, we present, for the first time, the reversible and large-scale modulation of ChB potency by electrochemical redox control. This is exemplified by both the switching-ON of anion recognition via ChB oxidative activation of a novel bis(ferrocenyltellurotriazole) anion host and switching-OFF reductive ChB deactivation of anion binding potency with a telluroviologen receptor. The direct linking of the redox-active center and ChB receptor donor sites enables strong coupling, which is reflected by up to a remarkable 3 orders of magnitude modulation of anion binding strength. This is demonstrated through large voltammetric perturbations of the respective receptor ferrocene and viologen redox couples, enabling, for the first time, ChB-mediated electrochemical anion sensing. The sensors not only display significant anion-binding-induced electrochemical responses in competitive aqueous-organic solvent systems but can compete with, or even outperform similar, highly potent XB and HB sensors. These observations serve to highlight a unique (redox) tunability of ChB and pave the way for further exploration of the reversible (redox) modulation of ChB in a wide range of applications, including anion sensors as well as molecular switches and machines.

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ChalcogensHalogensAnionsOxidation-ReductionSolventsAnionsChalcogensHalogensSolvents

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PMID35522996
PMCPMC9121379
OpenAlexW4229022276

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