A Three-Compartment Chemically-Driven Molecular Information Ratchet
摘要:
We describe a three-compartment rotaxane information ratchet in which the macrocycle can be directionally transported in either direction along an achiral (disregarding isotopic labeling) track. Chiral DMAP-based catalysts promote a benzoylation reaction that ratchets the displacement of the macrocycle, transporting it predominantly to a particular end compartment determined by the handedness of the catalyst.
A chemically driven molecular information ratchet is described. The equilibrium macrocycle distribution in a [2]rotaxane is driven away from its 50:50 population of thread binding sites to a 33:67 ratio by benzoylation under the influence of a chiral catalyst The reaction corresponds to a dynamic kinetic resolution of rotaxane co-conformers that interconvert through shuttling.