1H NMR investigation of solvent effects in aromatic stacking interactions
1H NMR investigation of solvent effects in aromatic stacking interactions
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DOI:
10.1021/ja015817m
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发表时间:
2001-08-08
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Iverson, BL
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作者:
Cubberley, MS;Iverson, BL
One of the marquis challenges in modem Organic Chemistry concerns the design and synthesis of abiotic compounds that emulate the exquisite complex structures and/or functions of biological macromolecules. Oligomers possessing the propensity to adopt well-defined compact conformations, or foldamers, have been attained utilizing hydrogen bonding, torsional restriction, and solvophobic interactions.(1) In this laboratory, aromatic electron donor-acceptor interactions have been exploited in the design of aedamers-foldamers that adopt a novel, pleated secondary structure in aqueous solution. Herein is reported detailed H-1 NMR binding studies of aedamer monomers that were carried out in solvents and solvent mixtures covering a broad polarity range. Curve-fitting analysis of the binding data using a model that incorporated the formation of higher order and self-associated complexes yielded a linear free energy relationship between the free energy of complexation and the empirical solvent polarity parameter, E-T(30). From these studies, the association of electron-rich and electron-deficient aedamer monomers was seen to be driven primarily by hydrophobic interactions in polar solvents. However. the magnitude of these interactions is modulated to a significant extent by the geometry of the donor-acceptor complex, which, in turn, is dictated by the electrostatic complementarity between the electron-deficient and electron-rich aromatic faces of the monomers.