Rapid thermally assisted donor–acceptor catenation

Albert C. Fahrenbach; Karel J. Hartlieb; Chi-Hau Sue; Carson J. Bruns; Gokhan Barin; Subhadeep Basu; Mark A. Olson; Youssry Y. Botros; Abdulaziz Bagabas; Nezar H. Khdary; J. Fraser Stoddart

doi:10.1039/C2CC34427K

Rapid thermally assisted donor–acceptor catenation†

Albert C. Fahrenbach,^a Karel J. Hartlieb,^a Chi-Hau Sue,^a Carson J. Bruns,^a Gokhan Barin,^a Subhadeep Basu,^a Mark A. Olson,^b Youssry Y. Botros,^acd Abdulaziz Bagabas,^ad Nezar H. Khdary^ad and J. Fraser Stoddart*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, USA
E-mail: stoddart@northwestern.edu

^b Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, USA

^c Intel Labs, Building RNB-6-61, 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA, USA

^d King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Charged donor–acceptor [2]catenanes containing cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) as the ring component can be synthesised in yields of up to 88% in under one hour by heating two precursors in the presence of macrocyclic polyether templates in N,N-dimethylformamide at 80 °C.

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Rapid thermally assisted donor–acceptor catenation†

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