Synthesis of acyclic tetrakis- and pentakis(N2O2) ligands for single-helical heterometallic complexes with a greater number of winding turns
摘要:
Acyclic oligooxime ligands (H8L4 and H10L5) that have four or five N2O2 coordinating moieties (salamo moieties) were synthesised in order to obtain single-helical metal complexes with a greater number of winding turns. When the complexation of the tetrakis (salamo) ligand H8L4 with zinc(II) took place, a complicated mixture of zinc(II) complexes was formed. However, the mixture was converted to a discrete pentanuclear complex in the presence of a guest ion with a suitable size (La3+, Ba2+), which was evidenced by the well-resolved sharp 1H NMR spectra and the mass spectra. Other ions with a smaller size (Lu3+, Ca2+) did not lead to such a discrete species. The 1H NMR spectral feature of the pentanuclear complex [L4Zn4La(OAc)3] is consistent with the single-helical structure in which the nth benzene ring approximately lies on the (n+3)th benzene ring.
An unprecedented one-handed coiled-coil structure was formed in the crystal of a Zn3La tetranuclear metallohelicate, in which the handedness of both the helical component and the helical array was well controlled by the chiral auxiliary of the flexible acyclic ligand.
The helical tetranuclear complex [LZn(3)La-(OAc)(3)] having two benzocrown moieties was designed and synthesized as a novel molecular leverage for helicity control and helix inversion. Short alkanediammonium guests H(3)N(+)-(CH(2))(n)NH(3)(+) (n = 4, 6, 8) preferentially stabilized the P-helical isomer of [LZn(3)La(OAc)(3)], while the longer guest H(3)N(+)(CH(2))(12)NH(3)(+) caused a helix inversion to give the M-helical isomer as the major isomer. The differences in the molecular lengths were efficiently translated into helical handedness via the novel molecular leverage mechanism using the gauche/anti conversion of the trans-1,2-disubstituted ethylenediamine unit.