Issue 3, 2019

Encapsulation of dihydrogenphosphate ions as a cyclic dimer to the cavities of site-specifically modified indolocarbazole-pyridine foldamers

Abstract

Indolocarbazole-Pyridine (IP) hybrid foldamers have been known to adopt a helical conformation with an internal tubular cavity wherein water molecules are tightly packed via the formation of multiple cooperative hydrogen bonds. In order to develop IP foldamer-based receptors for ions and molecules other than water molecules, we herein prepare two modified IP foldamers 2 and 3 that contain a pyrrole and an inverted pyridine in the middle of the strands, respectively, instead of the original pyridine unit. Such site-specific modification significantly disrupts the hydrogen-bonding network between the entrapped water molecules and the interior of the cavity, thus allowing for binding two dihydrogenphosphate ions as a cyclic dimer inside the cavity as demonstrated by 1H NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystal structure analysis. The crystal structures of the two complexes (H2PO4)22 and (H2PO4)23 are very similar to each other, with twelve hydrogen bonds between the bound dihydrogenphosphate dimer and the interior functional groups, indolocarbazole NH protons, pyridine nitrogen atoms and terminal OH protons in the helical tubular cavity.

Graphical abstract: Encapsulation of dihydrogenphosphate ions as a cyclic dimer to the cavities of site-specifically modified indolocarbazole-pyridine foldamers

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
05 Dez 2018
Accepted
27 Dez 2018
First published
28 Dez 2018

Org. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 299-303

Encapsulation of dihydrogenphosphate ions as a cyclic dimer to the cavities of site-specifically modified indolocarbazole-pyridine foldamers

C. Lee, H. Lee, S. Lee, H. Jeon and K. Jeong, Org. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 299 DOI: 10.1039/C8QO01307A

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