Abstract
Three new amido-imine-type hybrid macrocycles based on substituted pyrrole units have been synthesized and shown to act as effective receptors for oxoanions in the solid state and in acetonitrile solution. One of the macrocycles in question, compound 15, was characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis as the free macrocycle and as a complex with sulfuric acid. A comparison of the resulting structures reveals that this receptor is capable of undergoing a conformational change and, as a consequence, varying the number of donor sites that can interact with a bound substrate. This system and the other two new receptors described in this work (macrocycles 14 and 16, respectively) display a high affinity toward oxoanions (studied as their tetrabutylammonium (TBA) salts), with association constants on the order of 10(7) M-1 being determined in acetonitrile solution using standard UV-vis spectroscopic titration methods. A competitive titration method was used to determine affinity constants in excess of ca. 10(6) M-1. Two of the receptors (14 and 15) were found to bind acetate, hydrogen sulfate, and dihydrogen phosphate anion well, and the bipyrrole-based receptor (14) was also found to bind the perrhenate anion. In contrast, the bis-dipyrromethane-derived receptor (16) was found to bind chloride anion preferentially. The unusual selectivity displayed by 16 for this spherical anion was rationalized on the basis of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data and DFT modeling calculations, which revealed a rigid structure appropriately suited for chloride anion recognition.
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