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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 3, Pages 396-399Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja1087562
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-07-1-0534]
- Northwestern University (NU)
- NSF
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A subset of mechanically interlocked molecules, namely, donor-acceptor [2]catenanes, have been produced in aqueous solutions in good yields from readily available precursors. The catenations are templated by strong hydrophobic and [pi center dot center dot center dot pi] stacking interactions, which serve to assemble the corresponding supramolecular precursors, prior to postassembly covalent modification. Dynamic H-1 NMR spectroscopic investigations performed on one of these [2]catenanes reveal that the pirouetting motion of the butadiyne-triethylene glycol chain occurs with a dramatically lower activation enthalpy, yet with a much higher negative activation entropy in water, compared to organic solvents. The preparations of mechanically interlocked molecules in water constitute the basis for the future development of complex functional molecular machinery in aqueous environments.
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