Chiroptical sensing of asymmetric hydrocarbons using a homochiral supramolecular Box from a bismetalloporphyrin rotamer
Chiroptical sensing of asymmetric hydrocarbons using a homochiral supramolecular Box from a bismetalloporphyrin rotamer
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200604330
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Aida, Takuzo
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作者:
Aimi, Junko;Oya, Kazumasa;Aida, Takuzo
Molecular recognition of hydrocarbons is one of the challenging subjects in supramolecular chemistry.[1, 2] Here we describe the chiroptical sensing of asymmetric hydrocarbons with an achiral organic dye molecule that self-assembles to form a box-shaped chiral cyclic tetramer.[3, 4] Chiroptical sensing of asymmetric molecules is a method in which a chromophoric host is allowed to interact with a chiral guest.[5–11] When the chiral guest is appropriately associated with the host molecule through multipoint interactions,[12] the host displays a circular dichroism (CD) response in the visible absorption region, which can be diagnosed without interference from other coexisting molecules. Here, the sign and intensity of the CD response reflects the absolute configuration and enantiomeric purity, respectively, of the chiral guest.[13] For chiroptical sensing of asymmetric hydrocarbons, only limited examples have so far been reported,[2] since these compounds do not possess appropriate functionalities for directional multipoint interactions.[1] Our strategy for chiroptical sensing makes use of a boxshaped chiral supramolecular assembly of the bismetalloporphyrin rotamer 1.[3, 14, 15] In the presence of an asymmetric hydrocarbon, such as limonene, enrichment of either of the two enantiomeric forms of the chiral box takes place, thereby allowing an enhanced CD response in the visible absorption region. This is based on our recent finding that the zinc complex of dialkynylene-linked bisporphyrin 2 with meso pyridyl groups self-assembles to form a box-shaped cyclic tetramer (BOX), where 2 as the building block adopts either a planar (k) or a perpendicular (?) conformation (Scheme 1).[3] While BOXk consisting of the planar conformer of 2 (2k) is achiral, BOX? composed of its perpendicular conformer (2?) is chiral (homochiral). Since only the latter assembly is eligible for chiroptical sensing, we synthesized 1, a new tetraalkynylene version of 2, with an expectation that the