期刊
CHEMPHYSCHEM
卷 15, 期 17, 页码 3855-3863出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201402475
关键词
binding energy; buckyballs; computational chemistry; molecular devices; self-assembly
资金
- German Science Foundation [DFG Vo829/6-1, DFG SCHM 1389/5-1]
We report the synthesis of a tribenzotriquinacene-based (TBTQ) receptor (3) for C-60 fullerene, which is extended by pentiptycene moieties to provide an almost enclosed concave ball bearing. The system serves as a model for a self-assembling molecular rotor with a flexible and adapting stator. Unexpectedly, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic investigations reveal a surprisingly low complex stability constant of K-1=213 +/- 37M(-1) for [C-60< subset of>3], seemingly inconsistent with the previously reported TBTQ systems. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been conducted for three different [C-60< subset of>TBTQ] complexes to resolve this. Because of the dominating dispersive interactions, the binding energies increase with the contact area between guest and host, however, only for rigid host structures. By means of free-energy calculations with an explicit solvent model it can be shown that the novel flexible TBTQ receptor 3 binds weakly because of hampering entropic contributions.
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