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The synthetic route to the U-shaped, multi-functionalized diol 70 begins from the Diels-Alder adduct 67. Through five steps lead to diol 70. The U-shaped diol 70 reacted with benzyl bromide, 4-bromobenzyl bromide, 4-iodobenzyl bromide, 9-(bromomethyl)anthracene, 1-(bromomethyl)pyrene, isomeric bromomethylpridines via Williamson ether synthesis to construct a series of molecular crabs. It also reacted with acetic anhydride, benzoyl chloride, benzoic acid, 9-fluorenone- 2-carboxylic acid via base-promoted esterification to afforded another series molecular tweezers with crab-shaped structure. The self-assembled intramolecular p-stacking of chromophore in 105, 106, 117 and 118 with the distance about 3.4 Å, and the consequent p-p interactions were revealed by the X-ray crystal structure or its luminescence property. On the other hand, the bis-meta-pyridyl crab 110 complexation with silver(I) afforded a (1+1) metallo-bridged cyclophane 113. And the silver(I)-complex 114 from bis-ortho-pyridyl crab 111 is a (2+2) dimeric dimetallocyclophane. The U-shaped diol 70 reacted with a,a’-dibromo-p-xylene and a,a’-dibromo- m-xylene via Williamson ether synthesis afforded (1+1) cyclophanes, (2+2) cyclophanes and oligomers. In these cases, (2+2) cyclophanes were major products. Diol 70 reacted with a,a’-dibromo-o-xylene afforded both (2+2) cyclophane and oligomers. There has none (1+1) cyclophane being isolated.
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