摘要:
A large, covalent macrocycle that can be served as an artificial allosteric model was prepared in a reasonable yield (36%) through the template-directed synthesis. The macrocycle contains two topologically discrete subcavities. each of which consists of four amide NHs of pyridine-2,6-dicarboxamide units. The macrocycle strongly binds two molecules of N,N,N',N'-tetramethylterephthalamide in positive cooperative manner by hydrogen-bonding interactions. The association constants were calculated to be K-1 = 1480 +/- 90 and K-2 = 5580 +/- 150 M-1 with the Hill coefficient (h) of 1.6 at 25 degrees C in CDCl3. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd.