Computation-guided improved one-pot synthesis of macrocyclic cation-binding aromatic pyridone pentamers
作者:Vicky Ziman Zeng、Haibin Su、Tianhu Li
DOI:10.1039/c6ob01841f
日期:——
By using polar DMF to relax the H-bonded rigid backbone and to lower the energetic penalty associated with the sterically-crowded environment, the yields for BOP-mediated one-pot synthesis of pentameric macrocycles can be improved from 10–25% as obtained in CH2Cl2 to 13–47% when 15% DMF in CH2Cl2 was used as the reaction medium.
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.
BOP-mediated one-pot synthesis of C5-symmetric macrocyclic pyridone pentamers
We report here, for the first time, the BOP-mediated one-pot macrocyclization that is facilitated and guided by internally placed intramolecular H-bonds to allow for the highly selective formation of five-residue cation-binding macrocycles.