TY - JOUR A1 - Holzberger, Anja A1 - Holdt, H. N. A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich T1 - NMR spectroscopic and molecular modelling study of the solution structure and the complexational behavior of maleonitrile tetrathia crown ethers with silver(I) N2 - The flexibility and complex formation of two maleonitrile tetrathia crown ethers were studied in solution using H-1 and C-13 NMR spectroscopy and molecular modelling. Both the stoichiometry and the stability of the complexes that these crown ethers form with Ag(I) were determined by NMR titration measurements. Spin-lattice relaxation time measurements provided information concerning the donor atoms involved in complex formation and also the intramolecular mobility of the free and complexed ligands. Molecular modelling was also used to gain further insight into the conformational space of the free ligands and their silver(I) complexes. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Holzberger, Anja A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich T1 - Solution structure of the palladium(II) complex of 1,4,7,10-tetrathiacyclododec-2-ene-2,3-dicarbonitrile N2 - The solution structure of the Pd(II) complex of mn-12-S-4 was studied in detail by NMR spectroscopy. The stoichiometry of the complex was determined by H-1 NMR titration experiments. (3)J(H,H) coupling constants were extracted from the 2D J-resolved NMR spectrum of the complex providing information concerning the S-C-C-S torsional angles. Further conclusions about the conformation of [Pd(mn-12-S-4)](BF4)(2) were drawn from experimental NOES. The results of the NMR study were corroborated by molecular modelling. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd Y1 - 2004 SN - 0749-1581 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Holzberger, Anja A1 - Holdt, Hans-Jürgen A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich T1 - Conformational analysis of mixed oxathia crown ethers and their complexational ability towards Ag(I) and Pd(II) : an experimental solution NMR and theoretical molecular modelling study N2 - Both the conformation and flexibility of four mixed oxathia crown ethers and their Ag(I) and Pd(II) complexes were studied by H-1 NMR (delta, J, NOE, T-1), C-13 NMR, dynamic 1H NMR spectroscopy and molecular modelling. The stoichiometry and stability constants of the complexes were determined from corresponding Job's plots in the case of Ag(I) complexes as the interchange between free and complexed states was fast on the NMR timescale; interchange for the Pd(II) complexes was sufficiently slow such that distinct sub-spectra were observable for the free and complexed states. In all cases where complexation was observed, 1 : 1 complexes were formed. Global minima structures determined from the modelling studies were analysed with respect to the barriers to ring interconversion, the flexibility of the species in solution and the preferred complexation of Ag(I) and Pd(II) to the sulfur atoms of the crown ethers Y1 - 2004 SN - 1477-0520 ER -