Clathrate Compound

Name:
Clathrate Compound
Detailed information:
An inclusion complex in which molecules of one substance are completely enclosed within the other, as argon within hydroquinone crystals. Urea adducts are inclusion complexes of the channel or canal type. In these, the complexing urea crystals wrap around the molecule of the other substance, usually a straight-chain unbranched aliphatic hydrocarbon. Similar complexes are formed with thiourea.See Inclusion Complex.