Restricted guest tumbling in phosphorylated self-assembled capsules |
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Authors: | Harthong Steven Dubessy Béatrice Vachon Jérôme Aronica Christophe Mulatier Jean-Christophe Dutasta Jean-Pierre |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Chimie, E?cole Normale Supe?rieure de Lyon, CNRS, 46 Alle?e d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France. |
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Abstract: | ABii diphosphonatocavitands self-assemble in chloroform solution to form dimeric molecular capsules. The molecular capsules can incarcerate an N-methylpyridinium or N-methylpicolinium guest. We have demonstrated that the supramolecular assembly acts as a molecular rotor as a result of the restricted motion of the guest inside the molecular cavity. In the solid state, X-ray diffraction analysis of the free host showed that two cavitands interact through strong hydrogen bonds to give the supramolecular self-assembled capsule. The solid-state structure of the N-methylpicolinium complex is comparable to that of the free host and indicates that the guest is not a prerequisite for the formation of the capsule. DOSY NMR studies provided a definitive argument for the formation of the free and complexed supramolecular capsule in CDCl(3) solution. In solution, the tumbling of the N-methylpyridinium and N-methylpicolinium guests about the equatorial axes of the host can be frozen and differs by the respective energy barriers, with the larger picolinium substrate having a larger value (ΔG(++) = 69.7 kJ mol(-1)) than the shorter pyridinium guest (ΔG(++) = 44.8 kJ mol(-1)). This behavior corresponds to the restricted rotation of a rotator in a supramolecular rotor. |
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