Probing the Entropic Effect in Molecular Noncovalent Interactions between Resin-Bound Polybrominated Arenes and Small Substrates
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A Simple and Efficient Protocol for the Catalytic Insertion Polymerization of Functional Norbornenes
Published on: February 27, 2017
Masanori Yamamoto1,2,3, Miyuki Obara4, Keisuke Ochi2
1Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
Abstract:
The associative interaction between resin-bound polybrominated arenes and small molecules was analyzed by using various spectroscopic techniques as well as a synthetic molecular model to establish the thermodynamics. The binding in acetonitrile was three orders of magnitude stronger than that in methanol, partly owing to the tertiary conformational gating of the resin that controls the entropic terms. By using the entropic superiority, the associative binding of up to 3×104 m-1 is achieved with the non-biological system. A modified Hill plot for the quantitative analysis of bindings was also devised, which enabled the interactions at the molecular level to be elucidated.
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