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Supramolecular Complexes of Coordination Compounds
Inorganic chemistry: synthesis, structure, and stereochemistry of transition-metal compounds; bacterial ionophores; supramolecular complexes.
Recent research efforts in Professor Everett's group have been at the interface between inorganic chemistry and biology. The cation binding properties of bacterial ionophores have been investigated by Professor Everett through synthesis and characterization of cation-ionophore complexes of transition and non-transition metal cations. His current efforts in this area are directed toward exploring stereoselectivity in membrane transport of chiral complexes by the ionophores.
Professor Everett is also interested in synthesizing and characterizing supramolecular species in which transition-metal coordination complexes are encapsulated as "guests" in larger molecules that serve as "hosts". Work is in progress on two series of these supracomplexes. In all cases, the coordination complex appears to remain intact while binding to the host molecule through hydrogen-bonding interactions.
Chiroselective Membrane Transport of a Metal Ammine Complex by a Polyether Ionophore, Lasalocid A, L.F. Lindoy, G.W. Walker, and G.W. Everett, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 3659 (1990).
The interaction of C18-[13C]- Enriched Colchicine with Tubulin as Determined by NMR Spectroscopy, A.A., Osei, G.W. Everett, I. Ringel, and R. H. Himes, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1991, 1078, 339.
Supramolecular Transport of Metal Ammine Complexes Through Liquid Membranes by the Ionophore, Lasalocid A., P.S.K. Chia, L.F. Lindoy, G.W. Walker, and G.W. Everett, Pure and Applied Chem., 65, 521 (1993).
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