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Evaluation of hydrogen-bond acceptors for redox-switchable resorcin[4]arene cavitands
Igor Pochorovski1, Jovana Milić, Dušan Kolarski
1Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich , Hönggerberg, HCI, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Various H-bond acceptor groups were evaluated for their propensity to induce conformational switching between the kite and vase forms of diquinone-diquinoxaline resorcin[4]arene cavitands upon redox interconversion. The H-bond acceptors were placed on the quinoxaline walls with the purpose of stabilizing the vase form only in the reduced hydroquinone state of the cavitand by forming H-bonds with the hydroquinone OH groups. Design guidelines for successful acceptors were derived. The carboxamide acceptor was shown to be the best candidate. Based on this moiety, a redox-switchable triptycene-based basket that can completely sterically encapsulate a guest in its closed vase conformation was prepared. The basket binds small molecule guests with association constants of up to 10(4) M(-1) in mesitylene-d12 and exhibits slow guest exchange kinetics with a half-life for guest release in the order of 10(4) s.
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