Dynamic assembly of coordination boxes from (en)Pd(II) unit and a rectangular panel-like ligand: NMR, CSI-MS, and X-ray studies
Dynamic assembly of coordination boxes from (en)Pd(II) unit and a rectangular panel-like ligand: NMR, CSI-MS, and X-ray studies
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DOI:
10.1021/ja003043o
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发表时间:
2001-02-07
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15
通讯作者:
Yamaguchi, K
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作者:
Yamanoi, Y;Sakamoto, Y;Yamaguchi, K
The simple combination of square planar coordination geometry of Pd (II) or Pt (II) with pyridine-based ligands offers an efficient method for the self-assembly of nanometer-sized frameworks such as macrocycles, cages, catenanes, tubes, and capsules. 1 To expand the structures of pyridyl-coordinated Pd (II) complexes into more rigid and bigger coordination frameworks, one can replace a mono-coordinating 4-pyridyl group by a doubly ligating 3, 5-bis-(3-pyridyl) phenyl unit. According to this idea, 4, 4′-bipyridine, which is the simplest pyridine-based bridging ligand, is modified into tetradentate ligand 1). This ligand is expected to take a panellike conformation and, on complexation with (en) Pd (NO3) 2 (2), assemble into large discrete box structures such as 312+ and 416+ in analogy to the assembly of trinuclear and tetranuclear cyclic complexes from 2 and 4, 4′-bipyridine. 2, 3 Here we report that these expected box structures are efficiently formed in a dynamic fashion. Namely, the boxes are in equilibrium and smoothly interconvertable. Coldspray ionization mass spectroscopy (CSIMS), which was developed recently by some of us, 4 is found to be very effective to study both kinetic and thermodynamic products in the assembly process (Scheme 1).Treatment of 2 (1.25× 10-2 mmol) with ligand 1 (0.62× 10-2 mmol) at 50 C for 4 d in D2O-CD3OD (1: 1, 0.5 mL) gave rise to one major product, which was assigned as tetrameric box 416+ by CSI-MS after being isolated as PF6 salt in 88% yield (prominent peaks at m/z) 1688.8 [4 ‚13PF6] 3+ and 1230.8 [4 ‚12PF6] 4+). In 1H NMR, a set of six protons was observed in consistent with the D4h structure of 416+. In addition to box 416+, uncharacterized minor products were also detected in 1H NMR. Being in equilibrium, all of the products constituted a dynamic library of box structures from a single ligand. 5 From the library, we found that two box structures, both