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Rest C, Philips DS, Dünnebacke T, Sutar P, Sampedro A, Droste J, Stepanenko V, Hansen MR, Albuquerque RQ, Fernández G. Tuning Aqueous Supramolecular Polymerization by an Acid-Responsive Conformational Switch. Chemistry 2020; 26:10005-10013. [PMID: 32374463 PMCID: PMC7496824 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202001566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 05/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Besides their widespread use in coordination chemistry, 2,2'-bipyridines are known for their ability to undergo cis-trans conformational changes in response to metal ions and acids, which has been primarily investigated at the molecular level. However, the exploitation of such conformational switching in self-assembly has remained unexplored. In this work, the use of 2,2'-bipyridines as acid-responsive conformational switches to tune supramolecular polymerization processes has been demonstrated. To achieve this goal, we have designed a bipyridine-based linear bolaamphiphile, 1, that forms ordered supramolecular polymers in aqueous media through cooperative aromatic and hydrophobic interactions. Interestingly, addition of acid (TFA) induces the monoprotonation of the 2,2'-bipyridine moiety, leading to a switch in the molecular conformation from a linear (trans) to a V-shaped (cis) state. This increase in molecular distortion along with electrostatic repulsions of the positively charged bipyridine-H+ units attenuate the aggregation tendency and induce a transformation from long fibers to shorter thinner fibers. Our findings may contribute to opening up new directions in molecular switches and stimuli-responsive supramolecular materials.
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- Christina Rest
- Institut für Organische ChemieUniversität Würzburg am Hubland97078WürzburgGermany
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- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) MünsterCorrensstraße, 40.48149MünsterGermany
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- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) MünsterCorrensstraße, 40.48149MünsterGermany
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- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) MünsterCorrensstraße, 40.48149MünsterGermany
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- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) MünsterCorrensstraße, 40.48149MünsterGermany
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- Institut für Physikalische ChemieWWU MünsterCorrensstraße, 28/3048149MünsterGermany
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- Institut für Organische ChemieUniversität Würzburg am Hubland97078WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Physikalische ChemieWWU MünsterCorrensstraße, 28/3048149MünsterGermany
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- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) MünsterCorrensstraße, 40.48149MünsterGermany
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- Organisch-Chemisches InstitutWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) MünsterCorrensstraße, 40.48149MünsterGermany
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Dai W, Zhang Z, Du Y. Modulation of Conformational Preferences of Heteroaromatic Ethers and Amides through Protonation and Ionization: Charge Effect. Chemistry 2019; 8:840-851. [PMID: 31304077 PMCID: PMC6604235 DOI: 10.1002/open.201900103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Revised: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Multiple approaches reveal the strong effects of a positive charge introduced by protonation or ionization on the conformation of o‐heteroaromatic ethers and amides. The ethers and amides containing an ortho‐N heteroatom are syn‐preferring while those containing an ortho‐O or ortho‐S heteroatom are mostly anti‐preferring. However, for all the monocyclic o‐heteroaromatic ethers and amides, the protonated ones are all anti‐preferring while the ionized ones are all syn‐preferring. Interestingly, although both the protonation and ionization introduce a positive charge, they have such different effects on molecular conformation, very informative for understanding the origin of conformational preferences. Detailed analysis shows that the population of the introduced positive charge dictates the conformational preferences via electrostatic and orbital interactions. Compared to ortho‐heteroatoms, meta‐heteroatoms have weaker effect on conformational preference. Achieved by complete inductive method, the regularity of conformational preferences and switching provides easy ways to modulate conformers (by pH or redox), and makes this kind of ether or amide bond a conformational hinge applicable to design of functional molecules (drugs and materials) and modulation of molecular biological processes.
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- Wenshuai Dai
- Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Science, State Key laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 Beijing PR China.,School of Chemical Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Science, State Key laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 Beijing PR China.,School of Chemical Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Science, State Key laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 Beijing PR China
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Luccarelli J, Paton RS. Hydrogen-Bond-Dependent Conformational Switching: A Computational Challenge from Experimental Thermochemistry. J Org Chem 2019; 84:613-621. [PMID: 30586500 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
We have compiled an experimental data set (SWITCH10) of equilibrium constants for a series of hydrogen-bond-dependent conformational switches. These organic molecules possess common functionalities and are representative in terms of size and composition of systems routinely studied computationally. They exist as two well-defined conformations which serve as a useful tool to benchmark computational estimates of experimental Gibbs energy differences. We examine the performance of HF theory and a variety of density functionals (B3LYP, B3LYP-D3, CAM-B3LYP, ωB97X-D, M06-2X) against these experimental benchmarks. Surprisingly, despite a strong similarity between the two switch conformations, the average errors (0.4-1.7 kcal·mol-1) obtained across the data set for all methods are larger than obtained with HF calculations. B3LYP was found to outperform implicitly and explicitly dispersion-corrected functionals, with an average error smaller by 1 kcal·mol-1. Unsystematic errors in the optimized structures were found to contribute to the relatively poor performance obtained, while quasi-rigid rotor harmonic oscillator thermal contributions are important in improving the accuracy of computed Gibbs energy differences. These results emphasize the challenge of quantitative accuracy in computing solution-phase thermochemistry for flexible systems and caution against the often used (but unstated) assumption of favorable error cancellation in comparing conformers or stereoisomers.
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- James Luccarelli
- Chemistry Research Laboratory , University of Oxford , 12 Mansfield Road , Oxford OX1 3TA , U.K.,Department of Psychiatry , Massachusetts General Hospital , 55 Fruit Street , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory , University of Oxford , 12 Mansfield Road , Oxford OX1 3TA , U.K.,Department of Chemistry , Colorado State University , Fort Collins , Colorado 80523 , United States
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Kehoe ZR, Woller GR, Speetzen ED, Lawrence JB, Bosch E, Bowling NP. Effects of Halogen and Hydrogen Bonding on the Electronics of a Conjugated Rotor. J Org Chem 2018; 83:6142-6150. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Zachary R. Kehoe
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481, United States
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Luccarelli J, Jones IM, Thompson S, Hamilton AD. Unpicking the determinants of amide NH⋯OC hydrogen bond strength with diphenylacetylene molecular balances. Org Biomol Chem 2017; 15:9156-9163. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ob02026k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The stereoelectronic properties affecting hydrogen bond strength are investigated with a series of diphenylacetylene-based molecular balances.
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford
- UK
- Department of Chemistry
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford
- UK
- Chemistry
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford
- UK
- Department of Chemistry
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A structural systematic study of semi-rigid ferrocene derivatives as a 3 × 3 metallocene isomer grid: p -/ m -/ o -(FcC 6 H 4 )CONH( p -/ m -/ o -C 6 H 4 )CO 2 Et, [Fc = (η 5 -C 5 H 5 )Fe(η 5 -C 5 H 4 )]. Inorganica Chim Acta 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2016.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Vang HG, Driscoll ZL, Robinson ER, Green CE, Bosch E, Bowling NP. Conjugated, trans
-Spanning Ligands as Models for Multivalent p
-Phenyleneethynylenes. European J Org Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201501528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Knipe PC, Thompson S, Hamilton AD. Ion-mediated conformational switches. Chem Sci 2015; 6:1630-1639. [PMID: 28694943 PMCID: PMC5482205 DOI: 10.1039/c4sc03525a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2014] [Accepted: 11/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Molecular switches are ubiquitous in Nature and provide the basis of many forms of transport and signalling. Single synthetic molecules that change conformation, and thus function, reversibly in a stimulus-dependent manner are of great interest not only to chemists but society in general; myriad applications exist in storage, display, sensing and medicine. Here we describe recent developments in the area of ion-mediated switching.
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- Peter C Knipe
- Department of Chemistry , Chemistry Research Laboratory , University of Oxford , 12 Mansfield Road , Oxford OX1 3TA , UK . ; ; Tel: +44 (0)1865 275978
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- Department of Chemistry , Chemistry Research Laboratory , University of Oxford , 12 Mansfield Road , Oxford OX1 3TA , UK . ; ; Tel: +44 (0)1865 275978
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- Department of Chemistry , Chemistry Research Laboratory , University of Oxford , 12 Mansfield Road , Oxford OX1 3TA , UK . ; ; Tel: +44 (0)1865 275978
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Knipe PC, Jones IM, Thompson S, Hamilton AD. Remote conformational control of a molecular switch via methylation and deprotonation. Org Biomol Chem 2014; 12:9384-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ob01991a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Methylation and deprotonation at remote sites of a diphenylacetylene-based molecular switch exert global conformational changes through subtle tuning of a hydrogen-bonding network.
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- Peter C. Knipe
- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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Knipe PC, Lingard H, Jones IM, Thompson S, Hamilton AD. A Lewis acid-mediated conformational switch. Org Biomol Chem 2014; 12:7937-41. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ob01556h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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An isonicotinamide-substituted diphenylacetylene undergoes conformational switching upon recognition of Lewis acids.
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- Peter C. Knipe
- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- Oxford, UK
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