Self-Complementarity of Oligo-2-aminopyridines: A New Class of Hydrogen-Bonded Ladders
Author(s) -
Mankit Leung,
Ashis Baran Mandal,
ChihChieh Wang,
GeneHsiang Lee,
ShieMing Peng,
Hsing-Ling Cheng,
GuorRong Her,
Ito Chao,
HsiuFeng Lu,
YingChieh Sun,
Mei-Ying Shiao,
PiTai Chou
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the american chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.115
H-Index - 612
eISSN - 1520-5126
pISSN - 0002-7863
DOI - 10.1021/ja011679p
Subject(s) - chemistry , hydrogen bond , enthalpy , complementarity (molecular biology) , hydrogen , molecule , entropy (arrow of time) , thermodynamics , crystallography , organic chemistry , physics , genetics , biology
A new class of hydrogen-bonded ladders based on hydrogen-bonded dimerization of oligo-alpha-aminopryidines has been demonstrated. Jorgensen's model can be successfully applied to this hydrogen-bonding system in nonpolar solvents. The results show the competitive enthalpy/entropy compensation relationship upon dimerization. Although increasing the number of hydrogen-bonding interactions would enhance the hydrogen-bonding stabilization enthalpy, this stabilization enthalpy per unit would be partially sacrificed to compensate for the entropy loss due to dimerization. These results clearly support the importance of preorganization in designing hydrogen-bonding guest-host molecules.
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