Porphine dimeric assemblies in organic-pillared coordination cages.
Porphine dimeric assemblies in organic-pillared coordination cages.
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200604790
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2007-03
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K. Ono;M. Yoshizawa;Tatsuhisa Kato;Kentaroh Watanabe;M. Fujita
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作者:
K. Ono;M. Yoshizawa;Tatsuhisa Kato;Kentaroh Watanabe;M. Fujita
The π-stacked structure of porphyrin dimers and oligomers attracts considerable interest in many areas such as biomimetic and bioinspired chemistry and material science.[1, 2] The property of such assemblies is significantly affected by their spatial arrangement. Cofacially stacked porphyrin dimers have been previously prepared by linking the two porphyrin molecules by 1) covalent spacer (s),[3, 4] 2) hydrogen bonding,[5] or 3) electrostatic interactions.[6] However, the synthesis and the functionalization of porphyrin dimers are still limited because all of these methods need precise and sometimes complicated modification on the porphyrin ring to form the dimers. Another promising method, which we focus on here, is to utilize host–guest π-stacking interactions, where any direct modifications on the porphine core are not required. Herein, we report the assembly of porphine dimers in the boxshaped cavity of organic-pillared cages. Depending on the cavity size, two porphine molecules are stacked directly (A; Figure 1) or layered with an aromatic spacer (B). They exhibit unique UV/Vis absorption and ESR spectra (when the porphine guest contains CuII), depending on the manner of stacking in the cavity.We recently reported the self-assembly of organic-pillared coordination cages 1 and 2 from two panel-like ligands, three pillar-like ligands, and six cis-protected Pd complexes (Figure 1).[7] The cavities of the box-shaped hosts are large and well-fitting enough to accommodate two or three molecules of large planar aromatics by π-stacking interactions. Therefore, we employed these hosts to mediate the formation of the porphine dimers. To our knowledge, there are no reports on synthetic hosts that can fully encapsulate two or more porphine or porphyrin molecules in the cavity.[8] The complexation of 1 with porphine 3a was examined (Figure 2 a). When a purple-red powder of water-insoluble 3a (40.0 μmol) was suspended in a colorless solution of 1 (10.0 μmol) in D2O (1.0 mL) for 12 h at room temperature,