C2-Symmetric Dibenzosuberane-based Helicenes as Potential Chirochromic Optical Switches and Amorphous Hosts in OLED Applications

Three C2-symmetric (10R,11R)-diethyl substituted dibenzosuberane (DBS)-based helicenes with varying steric and conjugation demands of their bottom fragments were synthesized. Only the helicene-7a[with the bottom part derived from tetralone was found photo-switchable in reasonable time scale. Photoisomerization of the diastereomerically pure (10R,11R,P)-helicene (7a) at 280 nm led to virtually exclusive formation of the opposite M form-diastereomer 7a′ (7a′/7a = 99.6/0.4). The preferential return of 7a′ to 7a can be effected upon irradiation at 254 nm (7a′/7a = 3G/67) or thermally at 130 7a′/7a = 0/100). The photo-induced switching process amounts to a 133% difference in d.e. (from 99.2% to-34%). The concomitant change of helicene chirality between these two diastereomeric photostationary states augurs well for their potential application as an optical switch in LC materials. To our knowledge, our system serves as the best chirochromic optical switch as compared to the examples possessing similar photochromic properties.     

模板及其在纳米材料合成领域的应用

模板法是合成纳米材料的重要方法之一.本文综述了模板的分类、制备方法、性能以及在纳米材料合成领域中的应用,并对模板合成的未来发展进行了展望。     

Spontaneous Chirality Induction in the Assembly of a Single Layer 2D Network with Switchable Pores

Although two-dimensional (2D) chiral sheet structures are attractive because of their unique chemical and physical properties, single layer 2D chiral network structures with switchable pore interior remain elusive. Here we report spontaneous chirality induction in a single layer 2D network structure formed from the self-assembly of tetrapod azobenzene molecules. The chirality induction arises from multiple sublayers slipped in a preferred direction in which the sublayer consists of unidentical molecular arrangements in the in-plane a and b directions, breaking both the plane of symmetry and inversion symmetry. The protruded azobenzene units in the pore interior can be selectively isomerized upon UV irradiation, resulting in a reversible deformation of the chiral pores while maintaining the 2D frameworks. The chiral network can thus selectively entrap one enantiomer from a racemic solution with near perfect enantioselectivity, and then release it upon UV irradiation.     

Asymmetric Synthesis and Configurational Stability of C2‐Symmetric Hexacoordinated Phosphate Anions (TARPHATs) with Predetermined Chirality from Tartrate Esters

C₂‐Symmetric TARPHAT anions 5 made of a central P^V atom, one tartrato (=dialkyl 2,3‐di(hydroxy‐κO)butanedioato(2−)), and two tetrachloropyrocatecholato (=3,4,5,6‐tetrachlorobenzene‐1,2‐diolato(2−)‐κO,κO′) ligands can be easily prepared in decent to high yields (50–86%) as their dimethylammonium salt by using a one‐pot process and simple commercially available starting materials. The presence of the chiral tartrato ligands (usually (2R,3R)) leads to the formation of diastereoisomeric anions ((Δ,2R,3R)/(Λ,2R,3R)). Decent to good control by the chiral ligands – under equilibration conditions – over the Λ or Δ configuration of the adducts was observed (d.r. 84 : 16 in CHCl₃ for the di(tert‐butyl) tartrate derivative), the selectivity depending on the nature of the ester chains as well as on the solvent.     

Optically Active Phenyl-t-Butylphosphinothioic Acid as a Useful CSA for the Enantiomeric Excess Determination of Alcohols,Aminoalcohols and Related Compounds

Abstract

There are rather few methods for determination of the enantiomeric excess of chiral alcohols, amines, thiols and related compounds.¹ All these methods consist in the formation of. diastereomeric derivatives of the samples investigated with various chiral derivatizing agents (the CBA method) followed by the quantitative determination of their diastereomer composition using NMR or other techniques.     

Synthesis of Some C2‐Symmetric Bidentate Ligands and Their Complexes Derived from Feist's Acid

Various new C₂‐symmetric bidentate ligands, bearing phosphorus, nitrogen, and sulfur, were obtained in an efficient manner, starting from (±)‐trans‐3‐methylidenecyclopropane‐1,2‐dicarboxylic acid (Feist's acid; (±)‐trans‐ 3 ). The structures of the new bidentate ligands, di(tert‐butyl) (±)‐[(trans‐3‐methylidenecyclopropane‐1,2‐diyl)dimethanediyl]biscarbamate ((±)‐ 9 ), (±)‐(trans‐3‐methyldienecyclopropane‐1,2‐diyl)dimethanaminium dichloride ((±)‐ 10 ), (±)‐S,S′‐[(trans‐3‐methylidenecyclopropane‐1,2‐diyl)dimethanediyl] diethanethioate ((±)‐ 11 ), and (±)‐[(trans‐3‐methylidenecyclopropane‐1,2‐diyl)dimethanediyl]bis(diphenylphosphane) ((±)‐ 12 ), were fully characterized by standard spectroscopic techniques. These new classes of C₂‐symmetric bidentate ligands have the potential to be used in asymmetric catalysis.     

聚磷腈高分子

简要综述了聚磷腈高分子的合成、结构与物理性能及在新型功能材料方面的应用,包括高分子电解质、光导电材料、非线性光学材料以及生物医用材料。     

新型水溶性中氮茚衍生物的合成及铜离子荧光探针行为

设计合成了2个新型水溶性中氮茚季铵盐化合物4a{氯化2-[N'-(3-氰基-中氮茚-1-甲酰基)肼基]酰乙基-1-吡啶鎓盐}和4b{氯化2-[N'-(3-氰基-中氮茚-1-甲酰基)肼基]酰乙基-1-(2-甲基吡啶)鎓盐},采用红外光谱、核磁共振、质谱和元素分析对其进行了结构表征,并研究了它们的光谱性质.选取Cu2+,Zn2+,Ca2+,Cr3+,Co2+,Al3+,Mn2+,Ni2+,Ba2+,Hg2+,Fe3+,Cd2+,Mg2+,Pb2+,Li+和Ag+等16种常见金属离子,对2个化合物进行了离子识别实验.结果表明,化合物4a和4b在一定浓度范围内对铜离子均具有良好的选择性识别能力,受常见离子干扰小.由于空间位阻的影响,化合物4a具有比4b更高的灵敏性.     

Optically Active T-Butylphenylphosphinothioic Acid: Synthesis,Selected Structural Studies and Applications as a Chiral Solvating Agent

Abstract

Synthesis, structural studies and the use of the (?)-(S)- and (+)-(R) enantiomers of t-butylphenylphosphinothioic acid as a chiral solvating agent for the determination of enantiomeric purity is discussed. Systems that are the most extensively studied are emphasized.     

纤维素纳米晶模板法制备多级孔炭材料及其电化学性能

以纤维素纳米晶(CNC)为模板,酚醛树脂为碳源,KOH为活化剂,通过高温碳化制备了多级孔炭材料.采用透射电子显微镜(TEM)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和X射线光电子能谱仪(XPS)等手段对合成的一系列炭材料进行了表征.结果表明,前驱体中CNC的降解会形成与CNC直径相当的介孔,KOH活化则会导致炭材料产生大量的微孔和大孔,以及部分4 nm左右较小尺度的介孔,所制备炭材料呈现明显的多级孔特性,其比表面积达554.7 m²/g,总孔体积为0.323 cm³/g.以CNC为模板,KOH活化的炭材料作为电极材料时,在1.0 A/g电流密度下其比电容达202.8 F/g,当电流密度升高至40.0 A/g时,其电容保持率仍达69%,表明该炭材料具有优异的倍率性能;由该电极材料组装的超级电容器在10000次充放电循环后,电容保持率达95%以上,具有良好的循环稳定性.     

Chirality in the Absence of Rigid Stereogenic Elements: The Design of Configurationally Stable C3‐Symmetric Propellers

Residual stereoisomerism is a form of stereoisomerism scarcely considered so far for applicative purposes, though extremely interesting, since the production of stereoisomers does not involve classical rigid stereogenic elements. In three‐bladed propeller‐shaped molecules, a preferred stereomerization mechanism, related to the correlated rotation of the rings, allows the free interconversion of stereoisomers inside separated sets (the residual stereoisomers) that can interconvert through higher energy pathways. In light of possible future applications as chiral ligands for transition metals in stereoselective processes, some C₃‐symmetric phosphorus‐centered propellers, which could exist as residual enantiomers, are synthesized and the possibility of resolving their racemates into residual antipodes is explored. While the tris(aryl)methanes are configurationally stable at room temperature, only selected tris(aryl)phosphane oxides display a configurational stability high enough to allow resolution by HPLC on a chiral stationary phase (CSP HPLC) at a semipreparative level at room temperature. Stability was evaluated through different techniques (circular dichroism (CD) signal decay, dynamic CSP HPLC (CSP DHPLC), dynamic NMR analysis (DNMR)) and the results compared and discussed. Phosphanes were found much less stable than the corresponding phosphane oxides, for which preliminary calculations suggest that the three‐ring‐flip enantiomerization mechanism (M₀) would be easier than phosphorus pyramidal inversion. The parameters affecting the configurational stability of the residual enantiomers of C₃‐symmetric propellers are discussed.     

Synthesis,Separation, and Characterization of Optically Pure C76 Mono-Adducts

Nucleophilic Bingel cyclopropanation of D₂-C₇₆ with bis[(S)-1-phenylbutyl] 2-bromomalonate in toluene in the presence of base yielded three constitutionally isomeric pairs of diastereoisomeric mono-adducts together with one other constitutional isomer. All seven mono-adducts were isolated in optically pure form by prep. HPLC on a (S,S)-Whelk-O1 chiral stationary phase. They represent the first optically pure adducts of an inherently chiral fullerene. Characterization by UV/VIS, CD, ¹³C- and ¹H-NMR spectroscopy allowed identification of pairs of stereoisomers and symmetry assignments: the two pairs of diastereoisomers which were isolated as the major product possess C₁ symmetry, whereas the third pair of diastereoisomers, which is a minor product, is C₂-symmetrical. The circular dichroism spectra of the optically active C₇₆-adducts showed very pronounced Cotton effects resulting from strong chiroptical contributions of the chiral fullerene chromophore with the maximum observed Δε values being twice as high than those previously measured for optically active adducts of achiral fullerenes with a chiral addition pattern. Whereas the regioselectivity of mono-additions to C₇₀ correlates with the degree of local bond curvature and the regioselectivity of multiple Bingel cyclopropanations of C₆₀ with electronic parameters such as coefficients of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO), no such simple predictive correlations exist for the nucleophilic addition to C₇₆. Despite full spectral characterization, an unambiguous structural assignment of the isolated compounds was not possible, except for the two C₂-symmetrical isomers. Based on considerations of local bond curvature and the previous experiences with the chemistry of C₇₀, the structures of the C₂-symmetrical stereoisomers were assigned as (S,S,^fC)- 3 and (S,S,^fA)- 3 , resulting from addition to the polar α-type C(1)? C(6) bond.     

Chirality in the Absence of Rigid Stereogenic Elements: The Absolute Configuration of Residual Enantiomers of C3‐Symmetric Propellers

Two new tris(aryl)phosphane oxides existing as configurationally stable residual enantiomers have been synthesised and their racemates resolved by semipreparative HPLC on a chiral stationary phase (CSP HPLC). One of them, recognised as a conglomerate, could be resolved by fractional crystallisation at a preparative scale level. In this case, the absolute configuration of the propeller‐shaped molecule was determined by anomalous X‐ray scattering. The problem of the correlative assignment of the absolute configuration to all known C₃‐symmetric three‐bladed propeller‐shaped molecules existing as stable residual enantiomers is discussed. The configurational stability of the new chiral phosphane oxides and of the corresponding phosphanes was evaluated by CD signal decay kinetics and dynamic ¹H NMR spectroscopy. The racemisation barriers in phosphanes were found about 10 kcal mol^?1 lower than those found for the corresponding oxides, though geometry and inter‐ring gearing would be very similar in the two series. Configurational stability of residual tris(aryl)phosphanes was found to be influenced by the electronic availability of the phosphorus centre, as evaluated by electrochemical CV experiments.     

Fabrication of Mussel‐Inspired Highly Adhesive Honeycomb Films Containing Catechol Groups and Their Applications for Substrate‐Independent Porous Templates

Porous surface patterns are used in a wide variety of practical applications. Honeycomb‐patterned porous polymer films are good templates for preparing porous surfaces due to their simple fabrication and the arrangement of pores on the surface. Catechol groups include in adhesive protein of mussels have attracted much attention due to their highly and substrate‐independent adhesive properties. In this paper, highly and substrate‐independent adhesive honeycomb‐patterned porous polymer films are prepared by using amphiphilic copolymer having catechol moieties. Furthermore, porous surface patterns are transferred on various organic or inorganic substrates by wet etching with using adhesive honeycomb films as templates.

     

Synthesis of the C2 Symmetric 1,3-Dicyclohexyl-1,3-Propanediol and Diamine Enantiomers

The parent C₂-symmetric (R,R)- and (S,S)-1,3-dicyclohexyl-1,3-propanediols and diamines are readily obtained from the corresponding diphenyldiol precursors.