Charge-Based Assemblies Comprising Planar Receptor-Anion Complexes with Buiky Alkylammonium Cations
Charge-Based Assemblies Comprising Planar Receptor-Anion Complexes with Buiky Alkylammonium Cations
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包含具有丁基烷基铵阳离子的平面受体-阴离子复合物的基于电荷的组件
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10.1002/chem.201104066
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2012
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Hiromitsu Maeda
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作者:
Bin Dong;Yoshitaka Terashima;Yohei Haketa;Hiromitsu Maeda
Interactions between appropriately designed charged species (ions) result in charge-based materials in various states, such as single crystals [1] and ionic liquids.[2] On the other hand, ionic liquid crystals have received significant attention as a fascinating class of charge-based soft materials.[3, 4] However, it is challenging to construct charge-based assemblies as soft materials with the appropriate arrangement of both cations and anions. The introduction of planar charged components into the assemblies would help to solve this issue. In contrast to cations, planar anions are not easy to synthesize because they must contain excess delocalized electrons to prevent an electrophilic attack. As potential building blocks for charge-based assemblies, boron complexes of dipyrrolyldiketones (eg, 1 and 2, Figure1a) can provide planar receptor–anion complexes by association with various anions.[5, 6] In this study, the receptor–anion complexes were used as planar anions to fabricate a variety of supramolecular assemblies in combination with counter cations. For example, 1 formed solid-state columnar charge-by-charge assemblies by alternately stacking 1· ClÀ and counter cations, such as bulky tetrapropylammonium (TPA+; Figure 1 b, left)[5a] and planar 4, 8, 12-tripropyl-4, 8, 12-triazatriangulenium ((TATAC3)+) cations.[6a] Furthermore, in contrast to the transition to a solution from an octane gel comprising 2 after the addition of ClÀ as a bulky tetrabutylammonium (TBA+) salt,[5a] the gel was transformed to another gel material based on charge-by-charge assemblies by the addition of ClÀ as a planar (TATAC3)+ salt.[6a] The different states observed in the dispersed ion pairs and the assemblies by these salts are due to the varying strengths of the interactions between 2· ClÀ and counter cations, TBA+ and (TATAC3)+, respectively, in solution. However, the conditions that occur in the absence of solvents can help to create charge-based assemblies comprising bulky cations as observed in the solid-state charge-by-charge assembly of 1· ClÀ–TPA+.[5a] The assembly is constructed by using the electrostatic interactions between the positively and negatively charged components, as suggested by a theoretical study (Figure1b, middle and right).[7] Herein, the assemblies of the planar receptor–anion complex 2· ClÀ with various tetraalkylammonium cations, nmMe4ÀmN+((CnH2n+ 1) mMe4ÀmN+: m is in the range 1–4, Figure 1c), are thoroughly investigated.[8] The combination of planar 2· ClÀ and bulky nmMe4ÀmN+ results in chargebased assemblies on the basis of 2· ClÀ–nmMe4ÀmN+, for which the packing structures were modulated by the cations according to parameters, such as the number (m) and the length (n) of long alkyl chains. Ion pairs 2· ClÀ–nmMe4ÀmN+ were prepared as red precipitates by the combination of 2 and nmMe4ÀmNCl in solvents, such as 1, 4-dioxane. Their compositions were confirmed by 1HNMR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. It is worth mentioning that 2· ClÀ–nmMe4ÀmN+ are stable, nonhygroscopic, crystalline solids, which are in sharp contrast to the hygroscopic nmMe4ÀmNCl. In addition, nmMe4ÀmNCl are optically transparent in the entire visible region; however,[a] Dr. B. Dong, Y. Terashima, Dr. Y. Haketa, Prof. Dr. H. Maeda College of Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Science and Engineering Ritsumeikan University Kusatsu 525–8577 (Japan) Fax:(+ 81) 77-561-2659 E-mail: maedahir@ ph. ritsumei. ac. jp Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://dx. doi. org/10.1002/chem. 201104066.