Buildup of amphiphilic molecular bola from organic-inorganic hybrid polyoxometalates and their vesicle-like supramolecular assembly.
Buildup of amphiphilic molecular bola from organic-inorganic hybrid polyoxometalates and their vesicle-like supramolecular assembly.
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10.1002/chem.201101966
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2011-10
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Fengping Xiao;Mauricio F. Misdrahi;Jin Zhang;Panchao Yin;J. Hao;Chunlin Lv;Zicheng Xiao;Tianbo Liu-Tian
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Fengping Xiao;Mauricio F. Misdrahi;Jin Zhang;Panchao Yin;J. Hao;Chunlin Lv;Zicheng Xiao;Tianbo Liu-Tian
Amphiphilic molecules are a class of the most important functional compounds, which can be utilized to build up socalled “soft materials” by self-assembly in chemistry, biology, and material sciences.[1] Of this class of molecules, bolaamphiphiles (molecules with a hydrophobic skeleton and two hydrophilic end groups) have received increasing attention since Fuhrhop s seminal work on the self-assembly properties of hydrophobic derivatives of succinic acid.[2] This is due to their potential as building blocks to prepare various functional structures, such as micelles, vesicles, fibers, membranes, tubes, ribbons, and ropes for photoelectric devices, membrane-mimicking, nanoreactors, and drug delivery.[3, 4] Although many functional groups have been used as the end unit of surface-active molecules, a bolaamphiphile with two organically derivatized polyoxometalates (POMs) as end groups, a class of unique metal oxide clusters grafted with organic ligands,[5–9] has never been reported. Among organically derivatized POMs, we are much more interested in organoimido-substituted POMs due to their potential applications in catalysis, photoelectric devices, and medicines.[7] In particular, we have recently discovered that two saturated sp3 CÀH bonds near the nitrogen atom in the monosubstituted alkylimido hexamolybdates,[Mo6O18NCH2 (R)] 2À, can be activated by the nearby POM, and a carbon–carbon double bond, C= C, can be formed at elevated temperature through the so-called doubly dehydrogenative coupling (DDHC) reaction.[10] Thanks largely to the pioneering work of Maatta,[11] Errington,[12] and Proust,[13] the method of preparing organoimido POMs became convenient step by step.[7] Nowadays, many such new derivatives have been synthesized, especially with the so-called N, N’-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) protocol by direct use of amines as the raw starting materials.[7, 14] However, few of them are obtained as the derivatives of diimido ligands,[15, 16] especially since the reaction of flexible, alterable-length diamines prevents many from developing. Thus, following previous work on rigid hybrid molecular dumbbells,[15c] we attempt to introduce a series of flexible ligands, for example, functional bisarylamines with o-alkoxy chain substituents, to construct the buildup of interconnected POM hybrids including polyoxometalatocyclophanes, a class of POM-based matallomacrocycles.[16a] Herein, we demonstrate the fabrication of POM-based amphiphilic molecular bola with this type of diamine. To the best of our knowledge, amphiphilic POM hybrids have attracted increasing attention due to their potential in artificial capsules for catalysis and drug delivery.[17]Refluxing reactions of [nBu4N] 4ACHTUNGTRENNUNG [α-Mo8O26](nBu4N= TBA) with bisarylamine (1, 2-bis (o-aminophenoxy) ethane, C2; 1, 4-bis (o-aminophenoxy) butane, C4; or 1, 6-bis (o-aminophenoxy) hexane, C6) hydrochlorides, and DCC with a molar ratio of 2: 1: 3 in dry acetonitrile proceeded smoothly and afforded the amphiphilic molecular bola bisorganoimido-bridged hexamolybdates:[nBu4N] 4ACHTUNGTRENNUNG [Mo6O18 (N, N’-NC6H4OCnH2nOC6H4N) Mo6O18](n= 2 (1), 4 (2), 6 (3)), in 50–70% yields (Scheme 1).