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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 17, Issue 7, Pages 2160-2167Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002964
Keywords
sulfur; macrocycles; reaction mechanisms; rotaxanes; template synthesis
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [20971127, 20831160507]
- National Basic Research 973 Program of China
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The mild and highly efficient thiol-ene click reaction has been used to construct a rotaxane incorporating dibenzo-24-crown-8 (DB24C8) and a dibenzylammonium-derived thread in high yield under the irradiation of UV light. A rotaxane containing a disulfide linkage in the macrocycle was also synthesized by the thiol-ene click reaction. It has been demonstrated that the formation of the [2]rotaxane with the disulfide bond in the macrocycle occurs by a mechanism that is different to the threading-followed-by-stoppering process. The successful construction of a rotaxane directly from its constituent components, the macrocycle containing a disulfide linkage and the dibenzylammonium hexafluorophosphate salt, suggests that the space within the macrocycle incorporating the disulfide linkage is smaller than the phenyl unit and a plausible reaction mechanism has been proposed as follows: A small amount of the initiator forms two radicals upon the absorption of UV irradiation; the radicals act as a key to unlock the disulfide bond in the macrocycle. The resulting crown ether like moiety in the macrocycle is clipped around the ammonium ion center in the dumb-bell-shaped compound. The [2]rotaxane is generated upon recombination of the disulfide linkage.
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