A complex clathrate hydrate structure showing bimodal guest hydration

Konstantin A. Udachin and John A. Ripmeester ()
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Konstantin A. Udachin: Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada
John A. Ripmeester: Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6718, 420-423

Abstract: Abstract Interactions between hydrophobic groups in water1, as well as biomolecular hydration more generally2,3,4, are intimately connected to the structure of liquid water around hydrophobic solutes. Such considerations have focused interest on clathrate hydrates: crystals in which a hydrogen-bonded network of watermolecules encages hydrophobic guest molecules with which the water interacts only by non-directional van der Waals forces. Three structural families of clathrate hydrates have hitherto been recognized: cubic structure I (2MS·6ML·46H2O) (ref. 5), cubic structure II (16MS·8ML·136H2O) (ref. 5) and hexagonal structure H (ML·3MS·2MS·34H2O) (refs 6, 7) hydrates (here ML and MS are the hydrophobic guest sites associated with large and small cavities, respectively). Here we report a new hydrate structure: 1.67 choline hydroxide·tetra- n-propylammonium fluoride·30.33H2O. This structure has a number of unusual features; in particular the choline guest exhibits both hydrophobic and hydrophilic modes of hydration. Formally the structure consists of alternating stacks of structure H and structure II hydrates, and might conceivably be found in those settings (such as seafloor deposits over natural-gas fields) in which clathrate hydrates form naturally.

Date: 1999
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