A Calix[4]arene Carceplex with Four Rh24+ Fasteners
- 17 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 126 (5) , 1518-1525
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0396899
Abstract
It is shown that a spheroidal carceplex can be assembled by linking two bowl-shaped calix[4]arenes via four dimetal units, (DAniF)2Rh2 (DAniF = N,N‘-di-p-anisylformamidinate), with a molecule (diethyl ether) or a cation (tetraethylammonium ion) trapped inside. The tetraethylammonium carceplex, 1b, has been characterized by X-ray crystallography, 1H NMR, IR, and mass spectrometry. The tetraethylammonium ion fits snugly in the interior of the spheroidal carceplex. A two-fold axis of the tetrahedral cation coincides with the idealized four-fold axis of the cage, and the cation is disordered over two rotational orientations. Only one axial position on each dirhodium unit is occupied by a ligand, CH3CN or H2O. The carceplex is very stable, and the axial ligands can be exchanged in single crystals without disrupting the crystallinity of the samples. In this way, a red crystal of the complex with all axial positions occupied by acetonitrile can be transformed to a green crystal of the complex with two axial positions having acetonitrile and the other two having water by simply putting the crystal in contact with distilled water. The calix[4]arene used to make the carciplex structure is 25,26,27,28-tetra-n-propoxycalix[4]arene-5,11,17,23-tetracarboxylic acid. By employing 25,26,27,28-tetrapropoxy-5,17-dibromo-calix[4]arene-11,23-dicarboxylic acid, two 1:1 dimetal:calixarene compounds have also been made and characterized: 2, cis-Rh2(DAniF)2(calix)(CH3OH), and 3, cis-Mo2(DAniF)2(calix). The Rh−Rh distances in 1b are in the range of 2.410(2)−2.428(2) Å, that in 2 is 2.4383(4) Å, and the Mo−Mo distance in 3 is 2.0931(4) Å.Keywords
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