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Synthesis of Information-bearing Peptoids and their Sequence-directed Dynamic Covalent Self-assembly
Published on: February 6, 2020
Controllable assembly of rectangular macrocycles bearing different numbers of unsaturated sites based on
Li-Long Dang1, Yue-Jian Lin, Guo-Xin Jin
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, P. R. China. gxjin@fudan.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A series of hexanuclear rectangular macrocycles were designed and synthesized by utilizing multifunctional pyrazine-derived (pyrazine-2,3-diamine (H4L1)) and quinoxaline-derived ligands (2,3-dihydroxy-quinoxaline (H2L2)) featuring two monodentate sites and one pair of chelating sites. X-ray crystallography in combination with 1H NMR spectroscopy elucidated that both half-sandwich iridium diimine and dihydroxy moieties are located on either side of the rectangular macrocycles, making them centrosymmetric. Thereby, the prepared diimine-functionalised complexes were found to have unsaturated metal sites on account of their strongly bound Ir-N-C-C-N arrangement. However, all the iridium atoms in the rectangular macrocycles containing dihydroxy groups were found to adopt an 18-electron coordination configuration, indicating that the O,O'-bonded iridium centers had bound additional ligands, such as Cl-, MeOH, MeCN, etc. Notably, a rare rectangular macrocycle containing a single coordinatively unsaturated metal site was achieved when the ligands H2L12- and L22- were introduced simultaneously.
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