Use of hydrogen bonds to control molecular aggregation. Behavior of a self-complementary dipyridone designed to self-replicate
摘要:
In principle, the simple dipyridone 4 encodes enough chemical information to allow it to self-replicate by acting as a template for the assembly and controlled oxidative coupling of ethynylpyridone subunits 5 and 6. This could occur by the formation of ternary hydrogen-bonded complex 18, followed by copper-induced oxidative coupling of the bound ethynylpyridone subunits. In fact, treatment of an equimolar mixture of compounds 5 and 6 with excess CuCl.TMEDA and O2 in a variety of solvents produced only a normal statistical ratio of dipyridone 4 and symmetric isomers 10 and 11. This is presumably because dipyridone 4 is too highly self-associated to permit the formation of significant amounts of ternary complex 18. Moreover, even if dipyridone 4 can act as a template for the juxtaposition of its subunits, it may not be able to promote the subsequent copper-induced oxidative coupling that joins them together.
Use of hydrogen bonds to control molecular aggregation. Behavior of a self-complementary dipyridone designed to self-replicate
摘要:
In principle, the simple dipyridone 4 encodes enough chemical information to allow it to self-replicate by acting as a template for the assembly and controlled oxidative coupling of ethynylpyridone subunits 5 and 6. This could occur by the formation of ternary hydrogen-bonded complex 18, followed by copper-induced oxidative coupling of the bound ethynylpyridone subunits. In fact, treatment of an equimolar mixture of compounds 5 and 6 with excess CuCl.TMEDA and O2 in a variety of solvents produced only a normal statistical ratio of dipyridone 4 and symmetric isomers 10 and 11. This is presumably because dipyridone 4 is too highly self-associated to permit the formation of significant amounts of ternary complex 18. Moreover, even if dipyridone 4 can act as a template for the juxtaposition of its subunits, it may not be able to promote the subsequent copper-induced oxidative coupling that joins them together.