A Kamikaze Approach for Capturing Hg2+ Ions through the Formation of a One-Dimensional Metal–Organometallic Polymer

…, B Roy, S Mandal, S Bandyopadhyay

Index: Pal, Suman; Hatai, Joydev; Samanta, Mousumi; Shaurya, Alok; Bandyopadhyay, Subhajit Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2014 , vol. 12, # 7 p. 1072 - 1078

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 1

Abstract

A pyridine-fused imidazolyl-2-thione scaffold was used to mimic the cysteinyl residues of the Mer proteins found in mercury-resistant bacteria. The ligand forms a one-dimensional metal− organometallic polymer with Hg+ ions in the presence of acetate and removes the