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ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 262-273Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00495
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- Joint Center of Excellence in Integrated Nano Systems (JCIN) at King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
- Northwestern University (NU)
- Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, DOE [DE-FG02-99ER14999]
- National Science Foundation
- Ryan Fellowship
- NU International Institute for Nanotechnology
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Marie Curie Cofund Action (Rubicon Fellowship)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PZ00P2_148043]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PZ00P2_148043] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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CONSPECTUS: Acting as hosts, cationic cyclophanes, consisting of pi-electron-poor bipyridinium units, are capable of entering into strong donor acceptor interactions to form host guest complexes with various guests when the size and electronic constitution are appropriately matched. A synthetic protocol has been developed that utilizes catalytic quantities of tetrabutylammonium iodide to make a wide variety of cationic pyridinium-based cyclophanes in a quick and easy manner. Members of this class of cationic cyclophanes with boxlike geometries, dubbed Ex(n)Box(m)(4+) for short, have been prepared by altering a number of variables: (i) n, the number of horizontal p-phenylene spacers between adjoining pyridinium units, to modulate the length of the cavity; m, the number of vertical p-phenylene spacers, to modulate the width of the cavity; and (iii) the aromatic linkers, namely, 1,4 -di- and 1,3,5-trisubstituted units for the construction of macrocycles (ExBoxes) and macrobicycles (ExCages), respectively. This Account serves as an exploration of the properties that emerge from these structural modifications of the pyridinium-based hosts, coupled with a call for further investigation into the wealth of properties inherent in this class of compounds. By variation of only the aforementioned components, the role of these cationic receptors covers ground that spans (i) synthetic methodology, (ii) extraction and sequestration, (iii) catalysis, (iv) molecular electronics, (v) physical organic chemistry, and (vi) supramolecular chemistry. Ex(1)Box(4+) (or simply ExBox(4+)) has been shown to be a multipurpose receptor capable of binding a wide range of polycydic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs while also being a suitable component in switchable mechanically interlocked molecules. Additionally, the electronic properties of some host guest complexes allow the development of artificial photosystems. Ex(2)Box(4+) boasts the ability to bind both pi-electron -rich and-poor aromatic guests in different binding sites located within the same cavity. ExBox(2)(4+) forms complexes with C-60 in which discrete arrays of aligned fullerenes result in single cocrystals, leading to improved material conductivities. When the substitution pattern of the Ex(n)Box(4+) series is changed to 1,3,5-trisubstituted benzenoid cores, the hexacationic cagelike compound, termed ExCage(6+), exhibits different kinetics of complexation with guests of varying sizes a veritable playground for physical organic chemists. The organization of functionality with respect to structure becomes valuable as the number of analogues continues to grow. With each of these minor structural modifications, a wealth of properties emerge, begging the question as to what discoveries await and what properties will be realized with the continued exploration of this area of supramolecular chemistry based on a unique class of receptor molecules.
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