Bilability is Defined when One Electron is Used to Switch between Concerted and Stepwise Pathways in Cu(I)-Based Bistable [2/3]Pseudorotaxanes
摘要:
Supramolecular switches operate as simple machines by using a stimulus to turn stations off and on, generating thermodynamic differences that define bistability and enable motion. What has not been previously investigated, yet is required to gain further control over molecular movements for complex operations, is an understanding of how the same stimulus can also switch pathways off and on, thus, defining the kinetic property of bilability. To address this challenge, the mechanisms of the forward and return reactions of redox-switchable Cu(I)-based [2/3]pseudorotaxanes have been quantitatively characterized utilizing mechanistic cyclic voltammetry and employing a series of isosteric bis-bidentate ligands. First, the bistability of the switch is retained across the series of ligands: Reduction of the ligand drives the reaction forward where a [2]pseudorotaxane switches into a reduced [3]pseudorotaxane and reoxidation drives the switching cycle back to the beginning. Second, the switch is bilabile with the forward reaction following an association-activated interchange pathway (concerted), whereas the reverse reaction follows a different dissociation-based dethreading pathway (stepwise). The forward reaction is more sensitive to denticity (bidentate tetrazinyl ligand, k(2) = 12 000 M-1 s(-1), versus the monodentate pyrazinyl ligand, k(2) = 1500 M-1 s(-1)) than to electronics (k(2) = 12 000 M-1 s(-1) for methyl and trifluoromethyl substituents). The rate of return with the pyrazinyl ligand is k(1) = 50 s(-1). Consequently, both the mechanism and the thermodynamics of switching are stimuli dependent; they change with the oxidation state of the ligand. These findings have implications for the future design of molecular motors, which can be built from systems displaying allosterically coupled bistability and bilability.
Bond elongation in the anion radical of coordinated tetrazine ligands: A crystallographic, spectroscopic and computational study of a reduced {Re(CO)3Cl} complex
作者:Kumar Parimal、Shubham Vyas、Chun-Hsing Chen、Christopher M. Hadad、Amar H. Flood
DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2011.05.005
日期:2011.8
The binuclear complex [(mu-Me(2)BPTZ)(Re(CO)(3)Cl)(2)] (1), where Me(2)BPTZ = 3,6-(5-methyl-pyridyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine, can be reduced by addition of bis(eta(5)-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) iron(II) (decamethylferrocene, Fc*), to obtain a stable radical anion form 1(.). A single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of the radical anion (1(.))(Fc*(+)) was conducted and compared with a computational model of the same compound in the neutral and reduced states. As such, this work presents the first structural analysis of a reduced diimine ligand that is coordinated to Re(CO)(3)Cl} moieties. Bond-length changes within the tetrazine ring system were consistent with previously reported examples of tetrazine radicals and with calculated structures that show clear elongation of the azo-type N=N bond. Consistently atomic charge calculations indicate that the extra electron in the radical anion resides largely at the tetrazine core. A negligible change in the Re-Cl bond length is observed and computed. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Bilability is Defined when One Electron is Used to Switch between Concerted and Stepwise Pathways in Cu(I)-Based Bistable [2/3]Pseudorotaxanes
作者:Andrew I. Share、Kumar Parimal、Amar H. Flood
DOI:10.1021/ja908877d
日期:2010.2.10
Supramolecular switches operate as simple machines by using a stimulus to turn stations off and on, generating thermodynamic differences that define bistability and enable motion. What has not been previously investigated, yet is required to gain further control over molecular movements for complex operations, is an understanding of how the same stimulus can also switch pathways off and on, thus, defining the kinetic property of bilability. To address this challenge, the mechanisms of the forward and return reactions of redox-switchable Cu(I)-based [2/3]pseudorotaxanes have been quantitatively characterized utilizing mechanistic cyclic voltammetry and employing a series of isosteric bis-bidentate ligands. First, the bistability of the switch is retained across the series of ligands: Reduction of the ligand drives the reaction forward where a [2]pseudorotaxane switches into a reduced [3]pseudorotaxane and reoxidation drives the switching cycle back to the beginning. Second, the switch is bilabile with the forward reaction following an association-activated interchange pathway (concerted), whereas the reverse reaction follows a different dissociation-based dethreading pathway (stepwise). The forward reaction is more sensitive to denticity (bidentate tetrazinyl ligand, k(2) = 12 000 M-1 s(-1), versus the monodentate pyrazinyl ligand, k(2) = 1500 M-1 s(-1)) than to electronics (k(2) = 12 000 M-1 s(-1) for methyl and trifluoromethyl substituents). The rate of return with the pyrazinyl ligand is k(1) = 50 s(-1). Consequently, both the mechanism and the thermodynamics of switching are stimuli dependent; they change with the oxidation state of the ligand. These findings have implications for the future design of molecular motors, which can be built from systems displaying allosterically coupled bistability and bilability.
McNitt, Kristy A.; Parimal, Kumar; Share, Andrew I., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, vol. 131, p. 1305 - 1313
作者:McNitt, Kristy A.、Parimal, Kumar、Share, Andrew I.、Fahrenbach, Albert C.、Witlicki, Edward H.、et al.