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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 135, Issue 26, Pages 9924-9930Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja404270c
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- Italian MIUR (PRIN) [2010CX2TLM]
- University of Bologna
- University of Parma
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We have investigated the self-assembly of pseudorotaxanes composed of viologen-type axle and calix[6]-arene wheel components. The distinctive feature of this system is that both components are structurally nonsyrnmetric; hence, their self-assembly can follow four distinct pathways and eventually give rise to two different orientational pseudorotaxane isomers. We found that the alkyl side chains of the viologen recognition site on the molecular axle act as strict kinetic control elements in the self-assembly, thereby dictating which side of the axle pierces the calixarene cavity. Specifically, nonsymmetric axles with alkyl side chains of different length thread the wheel with the shorter chain. Such a selectivity, in combination with the face-selective threading of viologen-type axles afforded by tris(N-phenylureido)calix[6]arenes, enables a strict directional control of the self-assembly process for both the face of the wheel and the side of the axle. This kinetic selectivity allows both intramolecular self-sorting between two different side chains in a nonsymmetric axle and intermolecolar self-sorting among symmetric axles with alkyl substituents of different length.
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