A Novel Strategy To Assemble Achiral Ligands to Chiral Helical Polyrotaxane Structures

作者:Zeng, Jin-Ping; Cong, Hang; Chen, Kai; Xue, Sai-Feng*; Zhang, Yun-Qian; Zhu, Qian-Jiang; Liu, Jing-Xin; Tao, Zhu
来源:Inorganic Chemistry, 2011, 50(14): 6521-6525.
DOI:10.1021/ic200850r

摘要

Using the achiral N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,6-hexanediamine ligand bearing two end pyridyl groups as the source of conformational chirality, a novel type of TMeQ[6]-based helical polyrotaxane was prepared and characterized by X-ray crystallography and H-1 NMR spectroscopy. The chirality of the polyrotaxane was generated from twisting of the hexylidene of the N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,6-hexanediamine "string" when bound within the hydrophoblic cavity of TMeQ[6]. Two opposite chiral helical polyrotaxanes crystallize as a racemic compound,