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Cercosporin-Photocatalyzed [4+1]- and [4+2]-Annulations of Azoalkenes Under Mild Conditions
Published on: July 17, 2020
Investigation of tetramethylenesulfonated calix[4]resorcinarene interactions with azo dyes in aqueous solution
Julia E Morozova1, Ella Kh Kazakova, Diana A Mironova
1A. E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry of Kazan Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Arbuzov Street 8, Kazan, 420088 Russian Federation.
Abstract:
The interaction of a macrocycle's aggregates with a guest molecule has special interest due to the double role, both of macrocycle cavity and self-associates, in the binding of the guests. Here, we report on the interactions of nonaggregated methyl-substituted (SCA1) and aggregated penthyl-substituted (SCA2) tetramethylenesulfonated calix[4]resorcinarenes with pH indicators methyl yellow (MY) and methyl orange (MO) in aqueous solutions. It was found that the pH of aqueous solutions of SCA1 and SCA2 depends on their concentration; besides, variation of the concentration of SCA1 and SCA2 results in a shift of the absorption maxima and of pH-sensitive azo dyes. Association of the marocycles with azo dyes was demonstrated to follow a proton-transfer mechanism accompanied by protonation of the dyes; it was found that excess of the macrocycle in solution with the universal buffer background shifts the pK(a) values and stabilizes the protonated form of the dyes. Consideration of interactions of small dye molecules with large molecular associates, containing both individual and multimolecule binding sites, gives a closer approximation of synthetic biomimetics to their natural prototypes.
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