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Chiral Self‐Sorting Effects in the Self‐Assembly of Metallosupramolecular Aggregates Comprising Ligands Derived from Tröger's Base
Author(s) -
Jarzebski Andreas,
Schnakenburg Gregor,
Lützen Arne
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chempluschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.801
H-Index - 61
ISSN - 2192-6506
DOI - 10.1002/cplu.202000387
Subject(s) - chemistry , nitrile , metal , stereochemistry , base (topology) , self assembly , combinatorial chemistry , crystallography , organic chemistry , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Five ligands with either nitrile or isonitrile metal binding motifs have been synthesized based on the 2,8‐ or 3,9‐disubstituted Tröger's base scaffold, respectively. These ligands self‐assemble into dinuclear cyclic metallosupramolecular aggregates upon coordination to [(dppp)Pd(OTf) 2 ] in a highly diastereoselective manner, by heterochiral self‐sorting in a chiral self‐discriminating manner as shown by ESI mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, and single crystal XRD analysis. This observation is in contrast to earlier studies with ligands derived from Tröger's base that have larger metal binding motifs and bis(nitrile) and bis(isonitrile) ligands based on other rigid dissymmetric cores such as [2.2]paracyclophanes. Thus, the combination of these slim metal binding motifs with the rigid v‐shaped 2,8‐ or 3,9‐disubstituted Tröger's base scaffolds seems to be especially well preorganized to ensure high‐fidelity social self‐sorting behavior.