Described in this study is a conceptually new class of five-fold-symmetric cavity-containing planar pentameric macrocycles with their interior decorated by five convergently aligned, properly spaced carbonyl oxygen atoms. These cation-binding oxygens enclose a hydrophilic lumen of 2.85 angstrom in radius and thus display high-affinity binding toward alkali metal cations, and possibly many other cations, too. Arising from their high-affinity recognition of metal ions, these planar macrocycles form cation- or ion-pair-induced one-dimensional columnar aggregates, and subsequently fascinating fibrillation results.
One-Pot Synthesis of Strained Macrocyclic Pyridone Hexamers and Their High Selectivity toward Cu<sup>2+</sup> Recognition
作者:Changliang Ren、Jie Shen、Huaqiang Zeng
DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.5b02780
日期:2015.12.18
The removal of Cu2+ ions is relevant to environmental pollution control and neurodegenerative disease treatment. A novel family of strained macrocyclic pyridone hexamers, which exhibit highly selective recognition of Cu2+ ions and reduce copper content in artificial seawater by 97% at a very low [host]:[CuCl2] molar ratio of 2:1, is documented.
Cu 2+离子的去除与环境污染控制和神经退行性疾病的治疗有关。记录了一个新的应变大环吡啶酮六聚体家族,该化合物在非常低的[主体]:[CuCl 2 ]摩尔比为2:1的情况下显示出对Cu 2+离子的高度选择性识别,并将人造海水中的铜含量降低了97%。
Surprisingly High Selectivity and High Affinity in Mercury Recognition by H-Bonded Cavity-Containing Aromatic Foldarands
作者:Jie Shen、Changliang Ren、Huaqiang Zeng
DOI:10.1021/jacs.6b13342
日期:2017.4.19
well over 22 other metal ions. Despite the lack of sulfur atoms and having only oxygen-donor atoms in its structure, the best foldarand molecule, i.e., tetramer 4, exhibits a selectivity factor of at least 19 in differentiating the most tightly bound Hg2+ ion from all other metal ions, and a binding capacity that is ≥18 times that of thio-crown ethers. These two noteworthy binding characters make possible
Despite the tremendous progress that has been made in macrocyclic chemistry since the discovery of corands, cryptands, and spherands more than four decades ago, macrocyclic systems possessing a high level of controllability in structural configuration concurrent with a systematic tunability in function are still very rare. Employing an inner design strategy to orient Hbonding forces toward a macrocyclic cavity interior while convergently aligning exchangeable ionbinding building blocks that dictate a near-identical backbone curvature, we demonstrate here a novel pentagonal framework that not only enables its variable interior cavity to be maintained at near-planarity but also allows its ion-binding potential to be highly tunable. The H-bonded macrocyclic pentamers thus produced have allowed a systematic and combinatorial evolution of ion-selective pentamers for preferential recognition of Cs+, K+, or Ag+ ions.