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Msellem P, Dekthiarenko M, Hadj Seyd N, Vives G. Switchable molecular tweezers: design and applications. Beilstein J Org Chem 2024; 20:504-539. [PMID: 38440175 PMCID: PMC10910529 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.20.45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
Abstract
Switchable molecular tweezers are a unique class of molecular switches that, like their macroscopic analogs, exhibit mechanical motion between an open and closed conformation in response to stimuli. Such systems constitute an essential component of artificial molecular machines. This review will present selected examples of switchable molecular tweezers and their potential applications. The first part will be devoted to chemically responsive tweezers, including stimuli such as pH, metal coordination, and anion binding. Then, redox-active and photochemical tweezers will be presented.
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- Pablo Msellem
- Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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Schøttler C, Lund-Rasmussen K, Broløs L, Vinterberg P, Bazikova E, Pedersen VBR, Nielsen MB. Multi-redox indenofluorene chromophores incorporating dithiafulvene donor and ene/enediyne acceptor units. Beilstein J Org Chem 2024; 20:59-73. [PMID: 38264453 PMCID: PMC10804541 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.20.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Large donor-acceptor scaffolds derived from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with tunable HOMO and LUMO energies are important for several applications, such as organic photovoltaics. Here, we present a large selection of PAHs based on central indenofluorene (IF) or fluorene cores and containing various dithiafulvene (DTF) donor units that gain aromaticity upon oxidation and a variety of acceptor units, such as vinylic diesters, enediynes, and cross-conjugated radiaannulenes (RAs) that gain aromaticity upon reduction. In some cases, the DTF units are expanded by pyrrolo annelation. The optical and redox properties of these compounds, in some cases carbon-rich, were studied by UV-vis absorption spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. Synthetically, the work explores IF diones or fluorenone as central building blocks by subjecting the carbonyl groups to a variety of reactions; that are, phosphite- or Lawesson's reagent-mediated olefination reactions (to introduce DTF motifs), Ramirez/Corey-Fuchs dibromo-olefinations followed by Sonogashira couplings (to introduce enediynes motifs), and Knoevenagel condensations (to introduce the vinylic diester motif). By a subsequent Glaser-Hay coupling reaction, a RA acceptor unit was introduced to provide a DTF-IF-RA donor-acceptor scaffold with a low-energy charge-transfer absorption and multi-redox behavior.
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- Christina Schøttler
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
- Sino-Danish College (SDC), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Ferrer M, Gallen A, Martínez M, Rocamora M, Puttreddy R, Rissanen K. Homo- and heterometallic chiral dynamic architectures from allyl-palladium(II) building blocks. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:5913-5928. [PMID: 35348142 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt03706d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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New chiral tetranuclear square-like homo- and heterometallamacrocycles containing allyl-palladium and either {Pd(P-P)*} or {Pt(P-P)*} optically pure moieties (P-P* = (2S,3S)-O-isopropylidene-2,3-dihydroxy-1,4-bis(diphenylphosphanyl)butane ((S,S)-DIOP) and (2S,4S)-2,4-bis(diphenylphosphanyl)pentane ((S,S)-BDPP)) have been obtained by the self-assembly of [Pd(η3-2-Me-C3H4)(4-PPh2py)2]+ and [M(P-P)*(H2O)2]2+ building blocks in a 1 : 1 molar ratio. The supramolecular assemblies thus prepared [{Pd(η3-2-Me-C3H4)}2(4-PPh2py)4{M(P-P)*}2](CF3SO3)6 (M = Pd, Pt) have been fully characterised by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and MS spectrometry. The structures display remarkable differences on their dynamic behaviour in solution that depend on the lability and thermodynamic strength of M-py bonds. The structural characteristics of the new metallamacrocyles obtained have also been unambiguously established by XRD analysis. The architectures have been assayed as catalytic precursors in the asymmetric allylic alkylation reaction.
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- Montserrat Ferrer
- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Secció de Química Inorgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain. .,Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB). Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Secció de Química Inorgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Secció de Química Inorgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain. .,Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB). Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Secció de Química Inorgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, POB 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, POB 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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Mansoor IF, Dutton KG, Rothschild DA, Remsing RC, Lipke MC. Uptake, Trapping, and Release of Organometallic Cations by Redox-Active Cationic Hosts. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:16993-17003. [PMID: 34596386 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The host-guest chemistry of metal-organic nanocages is typically driven by thermodynamically favorable interactions with their guests such that uptake and release of guests can be controlled by switching this affinity on or off. Herein, we achieve this effect by reducing porphyrin-walled cationic nanoprisms 1a12+ and 1b12+ to zwitterionic states that rapidly uptake organometallic cations Cp*2Co+ and Cp2Co+, respectively. Cp*2Co+ binds strongly (Ka = 1.3 × 103 M-1) in the neutral state 1a0 of host 1a12+, which has its three porphyrin walls doubly reduced and its six (bipy)Pt2+ linkers singly reduced (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine). The less-reduced states of the host 1a3+ and 1a9+ also bind Cp*2Co+, though with lower affinities. The smaller Cp2Co+ cation binds strongly (Ka = 1.7 × 103 M-1) in the 3e- reduced state 1b9+ of the (tmeda)Pt2+-linked host 1b12+ (tmeda = N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine). Upon reoxidation of the hosts with Ag+, the guests become trapped to provide unprecedented metastable cation-in-cation complexes Cp*2Co+@1a12+ and Cp2Co+@1b12+ that persist for >1 month. Thus, dramatic kinetic effects reveal a way to confine the guests in thermodynamically unfavorable environments. Experimental and DFT studies indicate that PF6- anions kinetically stabilize Cp*2Co+@1a12+ through electrostatic interactions and by influencing conformational changes of the host that open and close its apertures. However, when Cp*2Co+@1a12+ was prepared using ferrocenium (Fc+) instead of Ag+ to reoxidize the host, dissociation was accelerated >200× even though neither Fc+ nor Fc have any observable affinity for 1a12+. This finding shows that metastable host-guest complexes can respond to subtler stimuli than those required to induce guest release from thermodynamically favorable complexes.
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- Iram F Mansoor
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 123 Bevier Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 123 Bevier Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 123 Bevier Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 123 Bevier Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 123 Bevier Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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Goeb S, Sallé M. Electron-rich Coordination Receptors Based on Tetrathiafulvalene Derivatives: Controlling the Host-Guest Binding. Acc Chem Res 2021; 54:1043-1055. [PMID: 33528243 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The coordination-driven self-assembly methodology has emerged over the last few decades as an extraordinarily versatile synthetic tool for obtaining discrete macrocyclic or cage structures. Rational approaches using large libraries of ligands and metal complexes have allowed researchers to reach more and more sophisticated discrete structures such as interlocked, chiral, or heteroleptic cages, and some of them are designed for guest binding applications. Efforts have been notably produced in controlling host-guest affinity with, in particular, an evident interest in targeting substrate transportation and subsequent delivering. Recent accomplishments in this direction were described from functional cages which can be addressed with light, pH, or through a chemical exchange. The case of a redox-stimulation has been much less explored. In this case, the charge state of the redox-active cavity can be controlled through an applied electrical potential or introduction of an appropriate oxidizing/reducing chemical agent. Beyond possible applications in electrochemical sensing for environmental and medical sciences as well as for redox catalysis, controlling the cavity charge offers the possibility to modulate the host-guest binding affinity through electrostatic interactions, up to the point of disassembly of the host-guest complex, i.e., releasing of the guest molecule from the host cavity.This Account highlights the key studies that we carried out at Angers, related to discrete redox-active coordination-based architectures (i.e., metalla-rings, -cages, and -tweezers). These species are built upon metal-driven self-assembly between electron-rich ligands, based on the tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) moiety (as well as some of its S-rich derivatives), and various metal complexes. Given the high π-donating character of those ligands, the corresponding host structures exhibit a high electronic density on the cavity panels. This situation is favorable to bind complementary electron-poor guests, as it was illustrated with bis(pyrrolo)tetrathiafulvalene (BPTTF)-based cavities, which exhibit hosting properties for C60 or tetrafluorotetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ-F4). In addition to the pristine tetrathiafulvalene, which was successfully incorporated into palladium- or ruthenium-based architectures, the case of the so-called extended tetrathiafulvalene (exTTF) appears particularly fascinating. A series of related polycationic and neutral M4L2 ovoid containers, as well as a M6L3 cage, were synthesized, and their respective binding abilities for neutral and anionic guests were studied. Remarkably, such structures allow to control of the binding of the guest upon a redox-stimulation, through two distinctive processes: (i) cage disassembling or (ii) guest displacement. As an extension of this approach, metalla-assembled electron-rich tweezers were designed, which are able to trigger the guest release through an original process based on supramolecular dimerization activated through a redox stimulus. This ensemble of results illustrates the remarkable ability of electron-rich, coordination-based self-assembled cavities to bind various types of guests and, importantly, to trigger their release through a redox-stimulus.
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- Sébastien Goeb
- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, SFR MATRIX, 2 bd Lavoisier, F-49000 Angers, France
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, SFR MATRIX, 2 bd Lavoisier, F-49000 Angers, France
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Dekhtiarenko M, Allain M, Carré V, Aubriet F, Voitenko Z, Sallé M, Goeb S. Comparing the self-assembly processes of two redox-active exTTF-based regioisomer ligands. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj04555e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A new exTTF-based ligand was synthesized and its coordination-driven self-assembly behavior with a square planar palladium complex was compared with a previously described regioisomer.
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- Maksym Dekhtiarenko
- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, 2 bd Lavoisier, F-49045 Angers, France
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 64/13 Volodymyrska st., Kyiv 01033, Ukraine
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, 2 bd Lavoisier, F-49045 Angers, France
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- LCP-A2MC, FR 3624, Université de Lorraine, ICPM, 1 Bd Arago, 57078 Metz Cedex 03, France
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- LCP-A2MC, FR 3624, Université de Lorraine, ICPM, 1 Bd Arago, 57078 Metz Cedex 03, France
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- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 64/13 Volodymyrska st., Kyiv 01033, Ukraine
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, 2 bd Lavoisier, F-49045 Angers, France
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, 2 bd Lavoisier, F-49045 Angers, France
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Krykun S, Croué V, Alévêque O, Levillain E, Allain M, Mézière C, Carré V, Aubriet F, Voïtenko Z, Goeb S, Sallé M. A self-assembled tetrathiafulvalene box. Org Chem Front 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0qo01543a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A M8L2 metalla-cage constructed through coordination-driven self-assembly from a quinonato bis-ruthenium complex and an electron-rich tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) tetrapyridyl ligand is depicted.
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- LCP-A2MC
- FR 3624
- Université de Lorraine
- ICPM
- 57078 Metz Cedex 03
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- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Kyiv 01033
- Ukraine
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- Univ Angers
- CNRS
- MOLTECH-ANJOU
- F-49000 Angers
- France
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