The self-assembly of long chain alkoxy-substituted benzoic acids around tribasic core 1 provides a simple and flexible way to supramolecular liquid crystals with columnar mesophases.
The use of 1,2,4-oxadiazol-5-ones, a recently developed class of bioisosteric replacements for carboxylic acids in medicinal chemistry, as binding ligands in supramolecular complexes is reported and has been exemplified by the formation of non-covalent complexes between acidic 3-aryl-1,2,4-oxadiazol-5-ones and an imidazoline base, 1,3,5-tris(4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-yl)benzene 1. The X-ray crystal structure of complex 6d illustrates how the carbonyl oxygen and the nitrogen atom in the position α to the carbonyl group of the heterocyclic ligand are hydrogen-bonded to the NH groups of tris(imidazoline) 1. A combination of 1 H NMR dilution studies and electrospray mass spectrometry-based competition experiments shows that 1,2,4-oxadiazol-5-ones bind more strongly to receptor 1 than a comparable benzoate.
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