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M. K. conceived and supervised this research. B. O. A. F. carried out the experiment and analyses, drafted and refined the manuscript. P. R. calculated size of neopentyl alcohol, methanol, acetone, acetonitrile, and tetrahydrofuran using ORCA [32a] and VEGA ZZ [32b] software. M. I. E, L. R, and P. R. refined the manuscript.
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Acknowledgements
The first author thanks M. K. of Shizuoka University for providing the opportunity to conduct the research and providing the laboratory facilities to conduct the measurement. The first author thanks P. R. of Computational Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius for his support in calculating the size of neopentyl alcohol, methanol, acetone, acetonitrile, and tetrahydrofuran using ORCA [32a] and VEGA ZZ [32b] software. The first author also thanks M. I. E., L. R., and P. R. for refining the manuscript.
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‡ Crystal data for 1: formula = C42H56CoN10O4S2, M = 888.01, lattice = 'monoclinic', a = 9.9613(3) Å, b = 23.9517(5) Å, c = 10.2582(3) Å, α = 90° β = 113.963(4)°, γ = 90°, V = 2236.55(12) Å3, space group = P21/c (No. 14), Z = 2, ρ(calcd) = 1.319 g cm-3, μ(MoKα) = 0.529 mm-1, radiateon = 0.71073 (λ,Å), temp = 173.15 K, reflns collected = 6126, unique reflns = 5340, param refined = 273, R1 [I > 2σ(I)] = 0.0556, wR2 [all data] = 0.1672, GOF = 1.064. CCDC-2121123 contains the supplementary crystallographic data for this work and can be obtained through www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/data_request/cif.