Self-assembly of a copper-ligating dendrimer that provides a new non-heme metalloprotein mimic:: "Dendrimer effects" on stability of the bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) core
Self-assembly of a copper-ligating dendrimer that provides a new non-heme metalloprotein mimic:: "Dendrimer effects" on stability of the bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) core
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DOI:
10.1021/ja982282x
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发表时间:
1999-02-03
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15
通讯作者:
Aida, T
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作者:
Enomoto, M;Aida, T
Dendrimers are nanosized hyperbranched macromolecules with well-defined three-dimensional shapes, which are expected to serve as building blocks for the construction of organized functional materials. 1 Recently, self-assembly of dendrimers to generate well-defined nanoscale architectures have been investigated by utilization of van der Waals, hydrophobic, hydrogenbonding, metal-ligating, and electrostatic interactions, 2, 3 which play important roles in biological supramolecular assemblies. However, examples of self-asembled dendrimers which exhibit bio-related functions have been very limited to date. Herein we report the first example of a dendritic non-heme metalloprotein mimic by O2-driven self-assembly of a copper-ligating dendrimer and wish to highlight a clear “dendrimer effect” on stability of the focal point bis (μ-oxo) dicopper species toward oxidative selfdecomposition. Bis (μ-oxo)-bridged bimetallic complexes have attracted a great deal of attention as synthetic models of active sites of multinuclear metalloproteins such as methane monooxygenase and ribonucleotide reductase. 4 As an example, Tolman et al. have reported that Cu (I) complexes of N-substituted 1, 4, 7-triazacyclononanes such as [Bn3TACNCu (MeCN)] PF6 (1b; Bn) benzyl [Chart 1]) react with O2 to form [(Bn3TACNCu) 2 (μ-O) 2] 2+(1c). 5 However, 1c is thermally unstable with a half-life of only 7 s at-10 C because of an oxidative self-decomposition at the N-Bn bonds.A series of triamine-core aryl ether dendrimers (Ln3TACN, n [number of the aromatic layers of the dendron subunits]) 2 (2a), 3 (3a), and 4 (4a); Chart 1) was synthesized by alkaline-mediated coupling6 of the corresponding dendron chlorides7 with 1, 4, 7-triazacyclononane (TACN) and characterized by means of 1H NMR, MALDI-TOF-MS, and elemental analysis. 8 The diamagnetic Cu (I) complexes ([Ln3TACNCu (MeCN)] PF6, n) 2 (2b), 3 (3b), 4 (4b)) were prepared by the reaction of 2a-4a (12 mM) with [Cu (MeCN) 4] PF6 (12 mM) in CH2Cl2 under argon at 20 C