Synthetic ionophores. Part 18: Ag⁺ selective trithiabenzena- and dithiabenzenapyridinacyclophanes ¹

Abstract

The phase transfer catalysed nucleophilic displacement of 1,3-bis(bromomethyl)benzene, 2-methoxy-5-methyl-1,3-bis(bromomethyl)benzene (2) and 1,4-bis(bromomethyl)benzene with 2-mercaptoethanol gives the respective diols 3, 4 and 12 (80–85%), which undergo intermolecular cyclodehydrochlorination with thiodiglycolyl dichloride and pyridine-2,6-dicarbonyl dichloride·HCl to provide m-phenylene (7–10) and p-phenylene (13–14) based crownophanes. The single crystal X-ray structures of crownophanes 8 and 13 and their NMR studies show that the m-phenylene and p-phenylene rings remain in plane and perpendicular to the macrocyclic ring both in solution and solid phases. These crownophanes offer three soft coordinating sites (3 × S or 2 × S and 1 N) conducive to complexation with Ag⁺ and the steric restrictions imposed by m- and p-phenylene rings restrict 2∶1 (L∶M) sandwich complexation required for complexation with the borderline soft Pb²⁺ cation. The crownophanes 7 and 9 extract Ag⁺ 172 and 602 times, respectively, more than Pb²⁺.

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