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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 6.
Published in final edited form as: Cryst Growth Des. 2011 Apr 6;11(4):959–963. doi: 10.1021/cg2001859

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Electrostatic DFT potential of the NO3 anion electrostatically bound to the triprotonated ligand in PCM chloroform solvent. The complex is stabilized by strong electrostatic interactions between the negatively-charged oxygen atoms in NO3 and the positively-charged protonated amine groups in the tripodal ligand.