Homochiral and meso Figure Eight Knots and a Solomon Link
摘要:
A homochiral naphthalenediimide-based building block forms in water a disulfide library of macrocycles containing topological isomers. We attempted to identify each of these isomers, and explored the mechanisms leading to their formation. The two most abundant species of the library were assigned as a topologically chiral Solomon link (60% of the library, as measured by highperformance liquid chromatography (HPLC)) and a topologically achiral figure eight knot (18% by HPLC), competing products with formally different geometries but remarkably similar 4-fold symmetries. In contrast, a racemic mixture of building blocks gives the near-quantitative formation of another new and more stable structure, assigned as a mesa figure eight knot. Taken together, these results seem to uncover a correlation between the point chirality of the building block used and the topological chirality of the major structure formed. These and the earlier discovery of a trefoil knot also suggest that the number of rigid components in the building block may translate into corresponding knot symmetry and could set the basis of a new strategy for constructing complex topologies.
High-Yielding Synthesis of Chiral Donor–Acceptor Catenanes
作者:Mehrafarin Eilbigi Dehkordi、Vijay Luxami、G. Dan Pantoş
DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.8b01629
日期:2018.10.5
We report the synthesis of [2]catenanes (Hopf links) in water utilizing disulfides and aromatic donor–acceptor interactions. The electron-rich dialkoxynaphthalene (DN) building blocks interact with electron-deficient naphthalenediimide (NDI) moieties connected by a polyamine chain. We study the effect of the polyamine linkers on the behavior of the library. The polyamine’s length and the number of