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Determination of Relative Stability of Urea Complexes from X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Jack Radell  and
J.W. Connolly
Jack Radell
Affiliation:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
J.W. Connolly
Affiliation:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
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Abstract

Urea complexes consist of a channel made up of hydrogen-bonded urea host molecules into which a variety of guest molecules can fit to form a crystalline complex. The urea host can accommodate, one at a time, a variety of guests having the requisite size and shape. The stability of the resulting complex is a function of the properties of the guest molecule. A procedure has been devised which produces pure complex free of any uncomplexed urea or host molecules in solution. The insoluble crystalline complexes formed from the solution of urea and guest molecule in methanol established a dynamic equilibrium. When the crystals of complex are removed from the solution, dissociation to urea and guest occurs to an extent, depending upon the dissociation constant of the complex. If the dissociation constant, KD, is very low, undetectable quantities of uncomplexed urea form along with complex. If the dlissoclation constant is high, extensive amounts of urea form in the presence of complex. Characteristic interplanar spacing s are obtained for a urea complex irrespective of the guest molecule present. The pattern obtained for the hexagonal complex is completely different from the pattern obtained for tetragonal urea. X-ray examination of a homologous series of compounds gives, for each partially dissociated complex, spacings for both urea and complex. The relative intensities of urea and complex spacings permit the estimation of the stability of such a complex compared to that of other homologues.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 4: Ninth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 10-12, 1960 , 1960 , pp. 140 - 150
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1960

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