A double-walled hexagonal supermolecule assembled by guest binding
A double-walled hexagonal supermolecule assembled by guest binding
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DOI:
10.1021/ja005695i
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发表时间:
2001-02-14
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Jeong, KS
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作者:
Cho, YL;Uh, HS;Jeong, KS
The transition metal-ligand interaction has been one of the most powerful tools to construct various sophisticated supermolecules such as macrocycles1, 2 and cages, 1, 3 owing to its strength and directionality. We recently described that discrete mono-and dinuclear macrocycles could be spontaneously assembled from a mixture of osmium tetroxide, olefin, and bispyridyl ligand. 4 In this assembling motif, the octahedral coordination center is generated in situ during the assembly process, unlike most other systems which require extra steps for the preparation of the metal center with the desired geometry and properties. Furthermore, the macrocycles are electrically neutral so that molecular recognition based on hydrogen bonds can be studied without interference by otherwise existing counterions. Herein we report the first example of double-walled hexanuclear hexagon formed by spontaneous reorganization of osmate ester-based macrocycles in the presence of naphthalene-2, 6-diol. 5 Addition of osmium tetroxide (∼ 1 equiv, 0.1 M in toluene) to a toluene solution of 1: 1 bipyridine and 5, 6-dibutyl-5-decene6 resulted in brown precipitates within a few minutes at room temperature (Scheme 1). 7 A strong infrared band of the product appeared at 830 cm-1, diagnostic of the trans OdOsdO bond of the octahedral dioxoosmate ester complex which results from the reaction between osmium tetroxide and olefin and concomitant coordination of two pyridyl moieties in a cis relationship. 8 The1H NMR spectrum showed two sets of doublets at 8.95 and 7.66 ppm corresponding to the R-and-pyridyl protons of the product, respectively, both of which were shifted downfield (Δδ) 0.1-0.2 ppm) relative to the free ligand. Elemental analysis, along with 1H NMR integration, 9 revealed a 1: 1: 1 stoichiometry of three components; OsO4, bipyridine and 5, 6-dibutyl-5-decene. All of these data are consistent with the symmetrical cyclic structure, for example 1, of the osmate ester product. Vapor pressure osmometry (VPO) was used to determine the size of this macrocyclic product in CHCl3 at 313 K. 10, 11 The molecular weights measured by VPO (Supporting Information) depend on the concentration of the sample. As the concentration increases from 8 to 27 g/kg (solute/solvent), the molecular weights were gradually increased from 2200 to 3200 (2651 for square 1), using benzil as the standard. This concentration dependence of the molecular weight may be explained if the product exists as an equilibrium mixture of various cyclic osmate esters (COEs), reminiscent of a dynamic combinatorial library. 12 At lower concentrations the relative population of smaller macrocycles is increased, while at higher concentrations larger macrocycles or aggregates increase. 13 More evidences for an equilibrium mixture of COEs in solution were obtained from 1H NMR studies:(a) chemical shifts of the R-and-bipyridyl protons are slightly concentration-dependent (Δδ 0.06-0.08 ppm over concentrations 0.5-50 mM), and (b) signals for R-and-bipyridyl protons split into more sets of doublets below 0 C, possibly due to a slow interconversion between cyclic osmate esters on the NMR time scale (Supporting Information).