High fidelity self-sorting assembling of meso-cinchomeronimide appended meso-meso linked Zn(II) diporphyrins

J Am Chem Soc. 2006 Jun 14;128(23):7670-8. doi: 10.1021/ja0611137.

Abstract

In noncoordinating solvents, meso-cinchomeronimide appended Zn(II) porphyrin 2 forms a cyclic trimer, while diporphyrins 7 exhibit high-fidelity self-sorting assembling to form discrete cyclic trimer, tetramer, and pentamer with large association constants from 7(in-in), 7(in)(-)(out), and 7(out-out), respectively, through almost perfect discrimination of enantiomeric and conformational differences of the meso-cinchomeronimide substituents. In the latter self-sorting processes, the dihedral angles dictated by the two pyridyl nitrogen atoms control the size of the aggregates; the trimer from 7(in-in), the tetarmer from 7(in)(-)(out), and the pentamer from 7(out-out). Cyclic structures of (2)(3) and (R-7(out-out))(5) have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biomimetic Materials / chemistry*
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Imides / chemistry*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Metalloporphyrins / chemistry*
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Nicotinic Acids / chemistry*
  • Nitrogen / chemistry
  • Pyridines / chemistry*
  • Stereoisomerism
  • X-Ray Diffraction

Substances

  • Imides
  • Metalloporphyrins
  • Nicotinic Acids
  • Pyridines
  • meso-cinchomeronimide
  • Nitrogen