Pure C-H hydrogen bonding to chloride ions: A preorganized and rigid macrocyclic receptor
Pure C-H hydrogen bonding to chloride ions: A preorganized and rigid macrocyclic receptor
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200704717
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Flood, Amar H.
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作者:
Li, Yongjun;Flood, Amar H.
Anions play important chemical and biological roles,[1] and the supramolecular chemistry involving them [2] has grown accordingly.[3] These developments range from fundamental studies on noncovalent bonding [4] to the design of anion receptors [2, 5, 6] and anion assistance to asymmetric catalysis.[7] A substantial number of artificial organic hosts for anions incorporate strong hydrogen bonds (H-bonds), usually NÀ H··· XÀ,[8] eg, calixpyrrole, or if CÀH··· XÀ H bonds are used, the carbon atom is adjacent to a cationic center, eg, imidazolium.[9] The strength and the relative significance of weak CÀH··· XÀ H bonds originating from neutral ring systems has been examined recently.[10] Although stronger than previously thought, these H-bonds were only considered as “additional binding sites within a host cavity.”[10b] It was surprising, therefore, to discover a break from this dogma when strong chloride binding was displayed by a novel macrocycle described herein, in which there are only aromatic CÀH··· ClÀ H-bonds.[11] This example appears to strengthen further Cram s idea [12] that a rigid host in which each binding site is preorganized [13] should show the strongest guest binding.The design for this receptor was originally motivated from the ongoing synthetic developments [14] in shape-persistent macrocycles together with the recognized efficiency of the copper-catalyzed [15] 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition of terminal azides and acetylenes to generate the five-membered 1, 2, 3-triazole ring system. In recent studies,[16] these triazoles were distinguished from other ring systems by the relief of steric strain provided by the sp2 nitrogen atoms in the ring system. This observation stimulated the prediction, elaborated herein, that 1, 4-disubstitution of triazoles with phenyl rings will produce inter-ring coplanarity that would establish a favorable building block for the preparation of planar macrocycles. To that end, we developed the efficient synthesis (27% yield, seven steps), using click chemistry, of a shape persistent macrocycle incorporating phenylene subunits. It was on the basis of this work that the discovery was made that the