Abstract
The energy landscape of molecular gyroscopes with meta-methoxy substituted trityl groups may include many stereoisomers due to the helicity of the two triarylmethyl propeller moieties and the stereochemical label provided by the meta-methoxy group. While low equilibration barriers and rapid equilibration in solution prevent isolation and observation by relatively slow techniques such as 1H and 13C NMR, their many structural options may offer opportunities to prepare several crystal forms, or conformational polymorphs. In this paper, we report the synthesis and characterization of 1,4-bis[tri-(meta-methoxyphenyl)propynyl]benzene (2), a crystalline molecular gyroscope with a phenylene rotator, a dialkyne axle, and two tri-meta-methoxy-substituted trityl frames. Using a combination of single-crystal X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), high resolution 13C cross-polarization magnetic-angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR, and polarized microscopy, we obtained experimental evidence for seven polymorphs labeled A−G and up to six phase transitions that relate them.
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