配位化学中的C-H…π非键弱相互作用

随着超分子化学研究的深入和发展,C-H…π非键弱相互作用越来越多地在晶体工程学、分子识别、主客体化学、自组装超分子体系以及生物大分子与配体相互作用等领域中被关注。本文综述了在配位化学中的C-H…π非键弱相互作用,它不仅存在于配合物分子内,亦可在配合物分子间观察到,并对利用配合物体系进行C-H…π非键弱相互作用体系研究提出一些设想。     

基于大环主体化合物的不对称超分子催化

超分子化学与催化的不断渗透融合催生了超分子催化这一挑战性的前沿研究热点。作为超分子化学的主要研究对象,大环化合物因具有可以和不同客体分子通过非共价相互作用可逆结合的识别位点,模拟酶催化中对底物分子的预组织过程,在超分子催化发展之初就备受关注,并在近二十年来取得了可喜的发展。本综述主要介绍了近十年来发展的基于冠醚、环糊精和杯芳烃等大环主体分子的代表性手性超分子催化剂,以及它们在不对称催化反应中的应用,重点阐述了主-客体等弱相互作用对催化剂活性和对映选择性的超分子调控作用,同时对这一研究领域目前存在的局限性和不足进行了总结,并展望了不对称超分子催化的发展前景。     

基于柱[5]芳烃主客体包结构筑分子响应型超分子水凝胶

主客体相互作用是在水溶液中与大环主体分子形成稳定的包结物的理想驱动力.以功能化的苯并咪唑衍生物为客体(M),水溶性柱[5]芳烃为主体构建了一种分子响应型超分子水凝胶.通过1H NMR, 2D NOESY和扫描电子显微镜(SEM)研究了水凝胶的成凝胶机理.有趣的是,主客体包结作用、柱[5]芳烃间有序的"外腔"π-π相互作用和分层堆积对于获得超分子水凝胶是必不可少的,非共价键相互作用的动态可逆性使凝胶体系对温度变化/化学刺激产生响应.此外,加入竞争性客体己二腈(ADN)/百草枯(PQ)后,柱[5]芳烃基水凝胶可转化为溶胶.因此,该超分子水凝胶可以选择性识别有机分子.     

超分子中分子间弱相互作用力的研究方法概述

随着超分子化学研究的深入，对分子间弱相互作用力的研究越来越受到世界科学界的重视，对其本质的研究已成为超分子化学急待解决的问题。本文介绍了超分子体系弱相互作用力的种类及其理论和实验研究方法。     

基于葫芦[10]脲的超分子水凝胶的制备及其在H2O2检测中的应用研究

以丙烯酰胺(AM)与客体单元二茂铁衍生物(G)在引发剂作用下共聚形成P(AM-G)聚合物.基于客体分子与主体分子葫芦[10]脲之间的动态主-客体相互作用为交联点制备了超分子水凝胶.采用核磁、扫描电镜及流变等测试方法对水凝胶的结构、形貌以及自修复性能等进行研究.结果表明超分子水凝胶为3D多孔结构的弹性体,CB[10]的引入有利于在聚合物网络中提供交联点,并且本研究中的超分子水凝胶可在没有任何外部刺激的情况下进行自修复.在水凝胶制备后,二茂铁的固有催化活性仍然得以保留,其良好的催化活性可应用于H_2O_2的检测,检测限为2.5×10~(-4) mol/L.本研究为超分子水凝胶功能化提供了一种新的方法,在生物技术和环境化学等领域具有潜在应用.     

基于非共价镊合作用的线形超分子聚合物

基于"镊合导向自组装"策略构筑超分子聚合物,可实现电子给受体基元在组装体层次的精确排列,设计并制备了基于三联吡啶铂(Ⅱ)炔分子镊子主体的AA型单体分子,以及基于芘客体的BB型单体分子.通过在芘客体上引入酰胺基元,在非共价镊合过程中可产生分子间NH―N氢键作用.通过氢键和供受体相互作用力的高效协同,显著提高了非共价镊合体系的结合强度,其结合常数可达到(3.58±0.01)×105(mol/L)?1,相比于未取代芘客体,其结合强度呈现出2个数量级的显著提高.在此基础之上,对AA、BB型单体分子的超分子聚合行为展开了深入的研究.结合实验及理论计算,证实在高浓度状态下,两单体分子通过自组装可获得具有高分子量特征的线形超分子聚合物.同时,考察了超分子聚合物的动态可逆性,通过温度的改变及链终止剂的加入,可实现超分子聚合物的可逆自/解组装过程.     

超分子相互作用主导的纳米药物成核

纳米沉淀法是目前制备纳米药物的主要途径, 是指通过向药物的良溶剂中引入不良溶剂产生过饱和体系, 进而形成纳米尺度药物颗粒的方法. 该方法操控灵活, 能够大范围地选择药物分子、 溶剂、 载体、 表面活性剂及其它赋形剂, 实现对纳米药物成核及生长过程的调控. π-π堆积和疏水相互作用等分子间弱相互作用能够主导纳米药物成核, 从而用于制备高生物安全性的无载体纳米药物(CFNs). 目前超分子自组装在成核过程中的具体作用、 协同效应及调控方法尚缺少归纳总结. 根据纳米沉淀法的成核理论, 本文对超分子相互作用在成核过程中的重要贡献进行了诠释; 基于目前单药自组装CFNs的进展, 对多药共组装CFNs的优势进行了强调; 并将超分子相互作用主导成核的概念拓展到通过金属离子螯合形成的CFNs. 从理论上阐明了超分子相互作用在纳米药物成核过程中的主导作用, 将极大促进以高生物安全、 多功能及以联合治疗为标志的下一代CFNs的发展.     

碳纳米材料的超分子表面修饰及应用

目前碳纳米材料已经成为纳米科学研究中的热点,它的特殊结构使其具有特殊的物理化学性能,对其进行超分子修饰可以提高其分散性以及赋予其新的性能,已经引起研究人员的广泛兴趣.本文综述了近年来碳纳米材料的超分子修饰以及其应用研究.重点阐述碳纳米管和石墨烯通过不同的超分子作用,如pi-pi相互作用、疏水相互作用、氢键相互作用、静电相互作用等进行修饰制备具有不同功能的超分子碳纳米材料,以及在光电材料、药物和基因传输以及化学生物传感器等领域的应用.     

C60与铈卟啉相互作用的密度泛函理论研究

应用Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE)密度泛函理论对5种可能存在的富勒烯与铈卟啉复合物进行了几何结构优化, 通过分子间距离及结合能数值, 确认了C₆₀和铈卟啉可以通过非键相互作用形成超分子主-客体复合物, 且最有可能的作用位点为C₆₀的C5:6键(相邻五元环与六元环共用碳-碳键). 应用扩展过渡态方法对结合能进行分解, 分解结果显示, 静电能对总吸引能的贡献约为60%, 说明静电作用是复合物稳定存在的最主要因素. 最后对复合物中的电子流向进行了研究, 结果表明复合物中电子的转移与主-客体间相互作用有一定联系, 且电子是从主体铈卟啉流向客体C₆₀.     

石油组分及其模型化合物的超分子化学作用

原油是最复杂的化学体系之一,人们对原油这种复杂的胶态分散体及其稳定性的研究兴趣与日俱增,尤其是与石油稳定性密切相关的沥青质超分子聚集体。但人们对形成沥青质超分子聚集体的主要作用力长期以来颇有争议。本文重点介绍了石油组分及其模型化合物在溶液中形成超分子聚集体的超分子化学作用研究进展。通过实验方法和理论计算证明沥青质聚集体是沥青质分子间通过氢键、π-π堆积、偶极-偶极相互作用等多种分子间弱相互作用力协同作用形成的热力学稳定结构;合成具有沥青质结构特点的纯化合物,研究它们在溶液中的行为,是提高对沥青质在液态相中自缔合行为认识的有效方法;结合现阶段的研究状况,对石油组分模型化合物的超分子化学作用研究的发展前景进行了展望。     

Writing with molecules on molecular printboards

Nanotechnology aspires to create functional materials with characteristic dimensions of the order 1-100 nm. One requirement to make nanotechnology work is to precisely position molecules and nanoparticles on surfaces, so that they may be addressed and manipulated for bottom-up construction of nanoscale devices. Here we review the concept of a "molecular printboard". A molecular printboard is a monolayer of host molecules on a solid substrate on which guest molecules can be attached with control over position, binding strength, and binding dynamics. To this end, cyclodextrins were immobilized in monomolecular layers on gold, on silicon wafers and on glass. Guest molecules (for example, adamantane and ferrocene derivatives) bind to these host surfaces through supramolecular, hydrophobic inclusion interaction. Multivalent interactions are exploited to tune the binding strength and dynamics of the interaction of guest molecules with the printboard. Molecules can be positioned onto the printboard using supramolecular microcontact printing and supramolecular dip-pen nanolithography due to the specific interaction between the 'ink' and the substrate. In this way, nanoscale patterns can be written and erased on the printboard. Currently, the molecular printboard is exploited for nanofabrication, for example in combination with electroless deposition of metals and by means of supramolecular layer-by-layer deposition.     

Molecular printboards: versatile platforms for the creation and positioning of supramolecular assemblies and materials

This tutorial review describes the development of molecular printboards, which are tailor-made surfaces functionalized with receptor (host) molecules. Such substrates can be used for the binding of complementary ligand (guest) molecules through multivalent interactions. Supramolecular multivalent interactions are ideal to attain a quantitative and fundamental understanding of multivalency at interfaces. Because of their quantitative interpretation, the focus is on (i) the interaction of cyclodextrin host surfaces with multivalent hydrophobic guest molecules, (ii) the vancomycin-oligopeptide system, and (iii) the multivalent binding of histidine-tagged proteins to NiNTA receptor surfaces. The review will be of interest to researchers in the fields of supramolecular chemistry, chemical biology, surface chemistry, and molecular recognition.     

Designing Molecular Printboards: A Photolithographic Platform for Recodable Surfaces

A light induced strategy for the design of β‐cyclodextrin (CD) based supramolecular devices is introduced, presenting a novel tool to fabricate multifunctional biointerfaces. Precision photolithography of a modified β‐CD was established on a light sensitive tetrazole surface immobilized on a bioinspired polydopamine (PDA) anchor layer via various shadow masks, as well as via direct laser writing (DLW), in order to craft any desired printboard design. Interfacial molecular recognition provided by light generated cavitate domains was demonstrated via spatially resolved encoding, erasing, and recoding of distinct supramolecular guest patterns. Thus, the light directed shaping of receptor monolayers introduces a powerful path to control supramolecular assemblies on various surfaces.     

Physicochemical perspective of cyclodextrin nano and microaggregates

'Chemistry beyond the molecule' is the nickname for supramolecular chemistry. This branch of study is based on molecular recognition that is host-guest chemistry. A number of potential hosts have been defined and applied in scores of studies. Among all potential hosts, cyclodextrins occupy a high position due to their characteristic solubilisation capability and biocompatibility. In the present article we are revisiting the host-guest aspects of cyclodextrins from a physicochemical perspective. We present details of formation and applications of cyclodextrin nanoaggregates induced by guest molecules, the concerned thermodynamics behind the process and also the effect of concentration of the guest molecules on the morphology of the aggregates. This article reviews the topic mainly from the spectroscopic point of view.     

In silico engineering of tailored ink-binding ability at molecular printboards.

Molecular recognition between guest ink molecules and beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD) cavities at self-assembled monolayers provides a molecular printboard for nanopatterning applications. We recently used molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to describe the specificity of ink-printboard binding and here extend the simulations to include charged cyclodextrin hosts, necessary to broaden the chemistry of molecular printboards and bind charged inks such as the ferrocenium cation. Shifting to high pH, or alternatively grafting a charged sidearm onto beta-CD, created three distinct types of anionic beta-CD cavity and we used electronic structure calculations and MD simulations to measure host-guest charge transfer and binding strengths. We find that steric recognition of uncharged organic molecules is retained at the charged printboards, and that improved guest-host electrostatic contacts can strengthen binding of larger inks while penalising small inks, enhancing the level of discrimination. A prudent choice of complementary host-guest shape and charge states thus provides a means of tuning both ink binding strength and specificity at molecular printboards.     

Switching surface chemistry with supramolecular machines

Tethered supramolecular machines represent a new class of active self-assembled monolayers in which molecular configurations can be reversibly programmed using electrochemical stimuli. We are using these machines to address the chemistry of substrate surfaces for integrated microfluidic systems. Interactions between the tethered tetracationic cyclophane host cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) and dissolved pi-electron-rich guest molecules, such as tetrathiafulvalene, have been reversibly switched by oxidative electrochemistry. The results demonstrate that surface-bound supramolecular machines can be programmed to adsorb or release appropriately designed solution species for manipulating surface chemistry.     

分子识别中质子客体的荧光传感和开关研究进展

分子识别是超分子化学的核心概念 ,而荧光开关PET体系又是分子识别中的重要组成部分 ,是超分子化学和光物理学科相结合的成就 ,作为一种全新的客体识别分析手段由于其独特的应用价值 ,近十年以惊人的速度在向前发展。本文综合 1 998年以前的文献对质子客体的荧光开关PET体系进行了全面介绍。     

Supramolecular Polymerization Engineered with Molecular Recognition

Supramolecular polymeric assemblies represent an emerging, promising class of molecular assemblies with enormous versatility compared with their covalent polymeric counterparts. Although a large number of host–guest motifs have been produced over the history of supramolecular chemistry, only a limited number of recognition motifs have been utilized as supramolecular connections in polymeric assemblies. This account describes the molecular recognition of host molecules based on calix[5]arene and bisporphyrin that demonstrate unique guest encapsulations; subsequently, these host–guest motifs are applied to the synthesis of supramolecular polymers that display polymer‐like properties in solution and solid states. In addition, new bisresorcinarenes are developed to form supramolecular polymers that are connected via a rim‐to‐rim hydrogen‐bonded dimeric structure, which is composed of two resorcinarene moieties.

     

Cucurbiturils–a New Family of Host Molecules

The supramolecular chemistry of cucurbituril, a synthetic receptor, is fascinating because of the remarkable guest binding behavior of the host. Although cucurbituril is potentially as useful as crown ethers, cyclodextrins, and calixarenes in many applications, its chemistry has not been developed much until recently because of several shortcomings. Recently we synthesized cucurbituril homologues and derivatives. These new members of the cucurbituril family have expanded the scope further, and interest in them has grown enormously. The diversity in guest binding behavior has led to many interesting studies such as redox control of guest binding, stabilization of charge-transfer complexes inside the host cavity, encapsulation of drug molecules, formation of redox-controllable vesicles, and so on. The cucurbituril homologues and derivatives thus provide new opportunities in many areas of supramolecular chemistry including recognition, catalysis, separation, transport, and many others.     

Recent advances and perspectives on supramolecular radical cages

Supramolecular radical chemistry has been emerging as a cutting-edge interdisciplinary field of traditional supramolecular chemistry and radical chemistry in recent years. The purpose of such a fundamental research field is to combine traditional supramolecular chemistry and radical chemistry together, and take the benefit of both to eventually create new molecules and materials. Recently, supramolecular radical cages have been becoming one of the most frontier and challenging research focuses in the field of supramolecular chemistry. In this Perspective, we give a brief introduction to organic radical chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and the emerging supramolecular radical chemistry along with their history and application. Subsequently, we turn to the main part of this topic: supramolecular radical cages. The design and synthesis of supramolecular cages consisting of redox-active building blocks and radical centres are summarized. The host–guest interactions between supramolecular (radical) cages and organic radicals are also surveyed. Some interesting properties and applications of supramolecular radical cages such as their unique spin–spin interactions and intriguing confinement effects in radical-mediated/catalyzed reactions are comprehensively discussed and highlighted in the main text. The purpose of this Perspective is to help students and researchers understand the development of supramolecular radical cages, and potentially to stimulate innovation and creativity and infuse new energy into the fields of traditional supramolecular chemistry and radical chemistry as well as supramolecular radical chemistry.

This Perspective summarizes the recent developments of supramolecular radical cages including the design and synthesis of radical cages, their interesting host–guest spin–spin interactions and applications in radical-mediated/catalyzed reactions.