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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 2.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2012 Mar 12;51(7):4274–4284. doi: 10.1021/ic202747q

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Schematic representation of (i) a urea unit and its directional binding mode for an anion, (ii) urea based tripodal receptor (L), and (iii) electrostatic potential map for L calculated at the M06-2X/6-31G(d,p) level of theory (red = negative potential, blue = positive potential).