Triplet acetylenes as synthetic equivalents of 1,2-bicarbenes, part II: new supramolecular scaffolds from photochemical cycloaddition of diarylacetylenes to 1,4-cyclohexadienes.
1,5-Diaryl substituted homoquadricyclanes which are readily available through cascade photocycloaddition of diarylacetylenes to 1,4-cyclohexadienes are useful supramolecular scaffolds with an angle of about 60 degrees formed by the two aromatic rings defining a hydrophobic cavity. These structural features of pyridinyl homoquadricyclanes were applied to the design of composite organic/inorganic materials with topologies depending on the ratio of ligand to metal. The crystal structure of complex 1 (L1/AgNO(3) in a 1:1 ratio) shows an alternating ligand-metal polymer in which each of the silver ions in its linear coordination geometry is shared between two L1 molecules. A small change in the crystallization method yields a supramolecular rhomboid (complex 2, L1/AgNO(3) 3:2 ratio) which has two ligands that occupy opposite corners of the rhomboid and two silver atoms occupy the other two corners. Connection of the rhomboids units through a third molecule forms unique "beads on a string" polymeric chains. In complex 2, the silver ions adopt a distorted tetrahedral geometry with the nitrate anion occupying one of the vertices of the tetrahedron. The crystal packing of the chain of rhomboids generates cavities which are filled with disordered solvent molecules. Non-symmetrical homoquadricyclane L3 coordinates with silver only through the nitrogen of the pyridine ring but not through the nitrogen of the tetrafluoropyridine ring in which the electron density of the nitrogen lone-pair is very low. The substituents on the polycyclic moiety of the homoquadricyclane cause restricted rotation of the pyridine rings which suggests that the flexibility of such systems can be fine-tuned to create a family of supramolecular scaffolds of controlled rigidity.
Zeidan
Tarek A
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4390, USA.
Clark
Ronald J
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Ghiviriga
Ion
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Kovalenko
Serguei V
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Alabugin
Igor V
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