Hydrophilic-to-Hydrophobic Volume Ratios as Structural Determinant in Small-Length Scale Amphiphilic Crystalline Systems: Silver Salts of Phenylacetylene Nitriles with Pendant Oligo(ethylene Oxide) Chains
摘要:
A series of 13 silver salts of phenylacetylene nitriles with pendant oligo(ethylene oxide) side chains have been crystallized, and their structures have been determined by single-crystal X-ray methods. All the organic molecules are amphiphilic in that they contain either a hydrophobic rigid linear or 3-fold planar phenylacetylene backbone to which are attached four to six rather plastic hydrophilic oligo(ethylene oxide) side chains. Six of the crystal structures have one-dimensional coordination networks based on Ag-N and Ag-O bonding, while the remainder are two-dimensional. Considering the hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions of these crystals as separate components of the crystal structure, five of the crystal structures contain parallel columns of hydrophobic moieties within a matrix of hydrophilic groups, four contain layers of hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions stacked one on top of the other, two have perforated lamellar structures and two are bicontinuous. Volume ratios of hydrophilic to hydrophobic portions prove a strong determinant as to which crystal topology is adopted for a given crystal composition. Such volume ratios can be calculated from knowledge of the molecular structure alone. A comparison is made to similar columnar and lamellar structures found in block copolymers and liquid crystalline systems. Finally, a similar breakdown of crystal topology as a function of volume ratios is found for aromatic-oligo(ethylene oxide) molecules in the Cambridge Structural Database.
Hydrophilic-to-Hydrophobic Volume Ratios as Structural Determinant in Small-Length Scale Amphiphilic Crystalline Systems: Silver Salts of Phenylacetylene Nitriles with Pendant Oligo(ethylene Oxide) Chains
摘要:
A series of 13 silver salts of phenylacetylene nitriles with pendant oligo(ethylene oxide) side chains have been crystallized, and their structures have been determined by single-crystal X-ray methods. All the organic molecules are amphiphilic in that they contain either a hydrophobic rigid linear or 3-fold planar phenylacetylene backbone to which are attached four to six rather plastic hydrophilic oligo(ethylene oxide) side chains. Six of the crystal structures have one-dimensional coordination networks based on Ag-N and Ag-O bonding, while the remainder are two-dimensional. Considering the hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions of these crystals as separate components of the crystal structure, five of the crystal structures contain parallel columns of hydrophobic moieties within a matrix of hydrophilic groups, four contain layers of hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions stacked one on top of the other, two have perforated lamellar structures and two are bicontinuous. Volume ratios of hydrophilic to hydrophobic portions prove a strong determinant as to which crystal topology is adopted for a given crystal composition. Such volume ratios can be calculated from knowledge of the molecular structure alone. A comparison is made to similar columnar and lamellar structures found in block copolymers and liquid crystalline systems. Finally, a similar breakdown of crystal topology as a function of volume ratios is found for aromatic-oligo(ethylene oxide) molecules in the Cambridge Structural Database.
Porous Siloxane Linked Phenylacetylene Nitrile Silver Salts from Solid State Dimerization and Low Polymerization
作者:Y.-H. Kiang、Geoffrey B. Gardner、Stephen Lee、Zhengtao Xu
DOI:10.1021/ja0009119
日期:2000.7.26
Three 3-fold symmetric rigid backbone phenylacetylene nitrile molecules have been prepared to which one to six hydroxy side chains have been attached. These molecules were cocrystallized with silver(I) trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate) to form microcrystalline porous solids. X-ray powder data show that all three crystal structures are isotypic to the crystal structures found in previous single crystal studies on related systems. Structural models based on these earlier single crystal structures have theoretical powder patterns in reasonable agreement with the experimentally observed patterns. These crystalline materials were allowed to react with silyl triflates. H-1 NMR and X-ray powder studies show that the silyl triflate groups react with the alcohol terminated side chains to form siloxane linkages with retention of the initial crystal structure. In the case of 1,3,5-tris(4-((4-cyanophenyl)ethynyl)-2-((4-hydroxybutoxy)methyl)phenylethynyl)benzene, a phenylacetylene nitrile molecule with three alcohol side chains, the introduction of di-tert-butylsilyl bis(trifluoromethanesulfonate) resulted in the formation of low polymers with average weight molecular weight of 7 x 10(4). This polymerized material shows increased chemical robustness in contrast to the unpolymerized material. It is stable in a variety of solvents, including overnight exposure to boiling water. Exchange experiments with toluene show that this final material is still porous.