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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue 15, Pages 4374-4386Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200401264
Keywords
chelates; coordination chemistry; copper; helical complexes; lithium; N ligands
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The synthesis of two multisite ligands containing four and five 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) chelates in line, respectively, is presented. The connectors are 1,3-phenylene linkers. The two ligands were prepared following multistep procedures, the two key reactions being the Suzuki coupling reaction between aromatic nuclei and the nucleophilic addition of aryllithium derivatives onto a phen fragment. The co-ordination chemistry of both ligands with Li+ ions was very clean and selective, whereas their reaction with copper(I) led to intractable mixtures of insoluble complexes. The tetraphen and the pentaphen compounds afforded almost quantitatively the four- and five-lithium double-stranded helical complexes, respectively. The helical systems are probably highly wound, as indicated by NMR measurements. The pronounced strain of the 5-Li+ complex is reflected by the easy loss of a lithium cation, as shown by electrospray mass spectrometry.
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