A STUDY OF THE KINETICS OF INCLUSION OF HALONAPHTHALENES WITH ß-CYCLODEXTRIN VIA TIME CORRELATED PHOSPHORESCENCE

Abstract— The phosphorescence of 1-bromonaphthalene and 1-chloronaphthalene is readily observable in nitrogen purged aqueous solutions containing ß-cyclodextrin. Addition of acetonitrile increases both the phosphorescence intensity and lifetime. The quenching of halonaphthalene phosphorescence in aqueous solution by nitrite is substantially inhibited upon addition of ß-cyclodextrin, as a result of a guest-host complex. The rate constants for formation and dissociation of the l-bromonaphthalene/ß-cyclodextrin complex are evaluated from an analysis of the dependence of phosphorescence lifetimes on nitrite concentration.     

Configurational stability of bisindolylmaleimide cyclophanes: from conformers to the first configurationally stable, atropisomeric bisindolylmaleimides

The bisindolylmaleimides are selective protein kinase inhibitors that can adopt two limiting diastereomeric (syn and anti) conformations. The configurational stability of a range of substituted and macrocyclic bisindolylmaleimides was investigated by using appropriate techniques. With unconstrained bisindolylmaleimides, the size of the 2-indolyl substituents was found to affect configurational stability, though not sufficiently to allow atropisomeric bisindolylmaleimides to be obtained. However, with a tether between the two indole nitrogen atoms in place, the steric effect of 2-indolyl substituents was greatly exaggerated, leading to large differences in configurational stability. The rate of interconversion of the syn and anti conformers varied by over twenty orders of magnitude through substitution of a bisindolylmaleimide ring system, which was constrained within a macrocyclic ring. Indeed, the first examples of configurationally stable atropisomeric bisindolylmaleimides are reported; the half-life for epimerisation of these compounds at room temperature was estimated to be >10(7) years.     

The Influence of Molecular Host Lattices on Electronic Properties of Orbitally (Near-) Degenerate Transition Metal Complexes

Transition metal complexes often have low-lying excited electronic states and, as a consequence, tend to be electronically labile, i.e., their electronic properties exhibit pronounced sensitivity to external perturbations. Often drastic changes in various spectroscopic properties indicating substantial electronic rearrangements can be induced be relatively weak intermolecular forces as provided by nonpolar solvents or solid molecular host lattices. This behaviour can be explained by crossing of potential surfaces in the vicinity of the absolute minimum. Many physical properties of a given orbitally (near-) degenerate system depend strongly on the relative magnitude of some characteristic parameters determining the shape of the ground Born-Oppenheimer potential surface(s), e.g. barrier height versus zero-point energy, distance between minima versus zero-point amplitude, energy difference between minima, etc. Typical examples are systems exhibiting Jahn-Teller activity, spin-crossover, mixed valence, exchange coupling and other types of electronic near-degeneracies. In paramagnetic systems changes in the electronic wavefunction can be most conveniently detected and analyzed by using EPR. spectroscopy. In paramagnetic sandwich complexes we studied two types of orbital degeneracies: Jahn-Teller degeneracies (d⁷-systems such as Co (cp)₂, Ni(cp) and Fe (cp) (bz), low-spin d⁵-systems such as Mn (cp)₂) and low-spin/high-spin equilibria (d⁵-systems such as Mn (cp)₂). By diluting these complexes and ring-substituted derivatives in a large variety of diamagnetic host systems we have been able to control the ⁶A/²E equilibrium of Mn (cp)₂ by influencing the metal-to-ring distance and by changing the degree of ring alkylation; similarly we have been able to vary the relative weights of the two electronic states contributing to the two-fold degenerate electronic ground state of d⁵- and d⁷-systems to a large degree by variation of the local asymmetric fields offered by the lattice sites of the host systems. For comparison the electronic ground state properties of octahedral Cu(II) complexes with CuN₆ CuO₆ chromophores, of V (CO)₆ and tetrahedral VCl₄ were also studied by EPR. between 4K and room temperature in several host systems. Characteristic differences in the details of the temperature and host dependence of the EPR. spectra in all these electronically labile systems can be explained in terms of differences in the vibronic coupling type (E ? e vs. T ? e, t), the strength of linear and/or quadratic JT-coupling and the effects produced by spin-orbit coupling.     

A facile microwave-assisted palladium-catalyzed cyanation of aryl chlorides

We report an efficient method for the preparation of aryl nitriles from aryl chlorides under either microwave assisted or thermal conditions. A catalyst system comprising tris(dibenzylidene acetone)dipalladium (Pd₂(dba)₃) and 2-(2′,6′-dimethoxybiphenyl)dicyclohexylphosphine (S-Phos) is shown to effectively promote cyanation of various aryl chlorides with Zn(CN)₂ as the cyanide source.     

Excited-state symmetry and reorientation dynamics of perylenes in liquid solutions: time-resolved fluorescence depolarization studies using one- and two-photon excitation

The excited-state symmetry and molecular reorientation of perylene, 1,7-diazaperylene, and 2,5,8,11-tetra- tert-butylperylene have been studied by different fluorescence depolarization experiments. The first excited electronic singlet state was reached through one-photon excitation (OPE) and two-photon excitation (TPE). A 400 and 800 nm femtosecond laser pulse was used for this purpose, and data were collected by means of the time-correlated single-photon counting technique. It is found that the rotational correlation times for each perylene derivative are very similar in the OPE and TPE depolarization experiments. For the determination of the two-photon absorption tensor, a recently described theoretical model has been applied (Ryderfors et al. J. Phys. Chem. A 2007, 111, 11531). It was found that the two-photon process can be described by a 2 x 2 absorption tensor for which the components are solvent dependent and exhibit mixed vibronic character. In the dipole approximation this is compatible with a parity-forbidden two-photon absorption into the first excited singlet state.     

Thermally-Induced Extrusion of Sulfur Dioxide from Allyl Alkyl Sulfones. Use of the Rearrangement for the Synthesis of Dihydrojasmone

For some time we have been interested in the mechanistic and potential synthetic applications of the thermal transformation illustrated in equation (1)^1.     

Radical Localization in a Series of Symmetric NiII Complexes with Oxidized Salen Ligands

Square‐planar nickel(II) complexes of salen ligands, N,N′‐bis(3‐tert‐butyl‐(5R)‐salicylidene)‐1,2‐cyclohexanediamine), in which R=tert‐butyl ( 1 ), OMe ( 2 ), and NMe₂ ( 3 ), were prepared and the electronic structure of the one‐electron‐oxidized species [ 1 – 3 ]^+. was investigated in solution. Cyclic voltammograms of [ 1 – 3 ] showed two quasi‐reversible redox waves that were assigned to the oxidation of the phenolate moieties to phenoxyl radicals. From the difference between the first and second redox potentials, the trend of electronic delocalization 1 ^+.> 2 ^+.> 3 ^+. was obtained. The cations [ 1 – 3 ]^+. exhibited isotropic g tensors of 2.045, 2.023, and 2.005, respectively, reflecting a lower metal character of the singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) for systems that involve strongly electron‐donating substituents. Pulsed‐EPR spectroscopy showed a single population of equivalent imino nitrogen atoms for 1 ^+., whereas two distinct populations were observed for 2 ^+.. The resonance Raman spectra of 2 ^+. and 3 ^+. displayed the ν_8a band of the phenoxyl radicals at 1612 cm^?1, as well as the ν_8a bands of the phenolates. In contrast, the Raman spectrum of 1 ^+. exhibited the ν_8a band at 1602 cm^?1, without any evidence of the phenolate peak. Previous work showed an intense near‐infrared (NIR) electronic transition for 1 ^+. (Δν_1/2=660 cm^?1, ε=21 700 M ^?1 cm^?1), indicating that the electron hole is fully delocalized over the ligand. The broader and moderately intense NIR transition of 2 ^+. (Δν_1/2=1250 cm^?1, ε=12 800 M ^?1 cm^?1) suggests a certain degree of ligand‐radical localization, whereas the very broad NIR transition of 3 ^+. (Δν_1/2=8630 cm^?1, ε=2550 M ^?1 cm^?1) indicates significant localization of the ligand radical on a single ring. Therefore, 1 ^+. is a Class III mixed‐valence complex, 2 ^+. is Class II/III borderline complex, and 3 ^+. is a Class II complex according to the Robin–Day classification method. By employing the Coulomb‐attenuated method (CAM‐B3LYP) we were able to predict the electron‐hole localization and NIR transitions in the series, and show that the energy match between the redox‐active ligand and the metal d orbitals is crucial for delocalization of the radical SOMO.     

Cyclopentadienyl chromium diimine and pyridine-imine complexes: ligand-based radicals and metal-based redox chemistry

Paramagnetic CpCr(III) complexes with antiferromagnetically-coupled anionic radical diimine and pyridine-imine ligands were prepared and characterized. The diimine chloro CpCr[(ArNCR)(2)]Cl complexes (1: Ar = 2,6-iPr(2)C(6)H(3) (Dpp), R = H; 2: Ar = 2,6-Me(2)C(6)H(3) (Xyl), R = Me; 3: Ar = 2,4,6-Me(3)C(6)H(2) (Mes), R = Me) were synthesized by treatment of previously reported Cr(diimine)(THF)(2)Cl(2) precursors with NaCp. Reduction of 1 with Zn gives CpCr[(DppNCH)(2)], 4, resulting from reduction of Cr(III) to Cr(II) with retention of the ligand-based radical. Alkoxide complexes CpCr[(DppNCH)(2)](OCR(2)R') (5: R = Me, R' = Ph; 6: R = iPr, R' = H) were synthesized by protonolysis of Cp(2)Cr with HOCR(2)R' in the presence of the neutral diimine and catalytic base. The corresponding radical pyridine-imine complexes CpCr(PyCHNMes)Cl (9), CpCr(PyCHNMes) (8), and CpCr(PyCHNMes)(OCMe(2)Ph) (11), were prepared by analogous routes. Oxidation of 8 with iodine gives CpCr(PyCHNMes)I (10) where oxidation of Cr(II) to Cr(III) again occurs with retention of the anionic pyridine-imine radical ligand. The molecular structures of complexes 1, 2, 4-8, 10 and 11 were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Unusual low energy bands were observed in the UV-vis spectra of the reported complexes, with particularly strong transitions observed for the Cr(II) complexes 4 and 8. The electronic structure of pyridine-imine complexes 8 and 10 were investigated by theoretical calculations.     

Class III Delocalization and Exciton Coupling in a Bimetallic Bis‐ligand Radical Complex

The geometric and electronic structure of an oxidized bimetallic Ni complex incorporating two redox‐active Schiff‐base ligands connected via a 1,2‐phenylene linker has been investigated and compared to a monomeric analogue. Information from UV/Vis/NIR spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations provides important information on the locus of oxidation for the bimetallic complex. The neutral bimetallic complex is conformationally dynamic at room temperature, which complicates characterization of the oxidized forms. Comparison to an oxidized monomer analogue 1 provides critical insight into the electronic structure of the oxidized bimetallic complex 2 . Oxidation of 1 provides [ 1 ^.]⁺, which is characterized as a fully delocalized ligand radical complex; the spectroscopic signature of this derivative includes an intense NIR band at 4500 cm^?1. Oxidation of 2 to the bis‐oxidized form affords a bis‐ligand radical species [ 2 ^..]²⁺. Variable temperature EPR spectroscopy of [ 2 ^..]²⁺ shows no evidence of coupling, and the triplet and broken symmetry solutions afforded by theoretical calculations are essentially isoenergetic. [ 2 ^..]²⁺ is thus best described as incorporating two non‐interacting ligand radicals. Interestingly, the intense NIR intervalence charge transfer band observed for the delocalized ligand‐radical [ 1 ^.]⁺ exhibits exciton splitting in [ 2 ^..]²⁺, due to coupling of the monomer transition dipoles in the enforced oblique dimer geometry. Evaluating the splitting of the intense intervalence charge transfer band can thus provide significant geometric and electronic information in less rigid bis‐ligand radical systems. Addition of excess pyridine to [ 2 ^..]²⁺ results in a shift in the oxidation locus from a bis‐ligand radical species to the Ni^III/Ni^III derivative [ 2 (py)₄]^{2 +} , demonstrating that the ligand system can incorporate significant bulk in the axial positions.