Yuhara Daisuke, Yasuoka Kenji, Takeya Satoshi, Muromachi Sanehiro
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Aug 20;55(68):10150-10153. doi: 10.1039/c9cc05009d.
Anisotropic dodecahedral (D) water cages found in semiclathrate hydrates have unique gas selectivity due to their varied shapes. Herein, the D cages incorporating ideally isotropic rare gases, i.e., Xe, Kr and Ar, were characterized by crystal structure analyses. Stabilization mechanisms of the semiclathrate hydrates by the D cages are discussed.
