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.
The anion-templated syntheses and binding properties of novel macrocyclic oligopyrrole receptors in which pyrrole rings are linked through amide or imine bonds are described. The efficient synthesis was accomplished by anion-templated [1+1] Schiff-base condensation and acylation macrocyclization reactions. Free receptors and their host-guest complexes with hydrochloric acid, acetic acid, tetrabutylammonium chloride, and hydrogen sulfate were analyzed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Stability constants with different tetrabutylammonium salts of inorganic acids were determined by standard 1H NMR and UV/Vis titration techniques in [D6]DMSO/0.5% water solution. According to the titration data, receptors containing three pyrrole rings (10 and 12) exhibit high affinity (log Ka=5-7) for bifluoride, acetate, and dihydrogen phosphate, and interact weakly with chloride and hydrogen sulfate. The amido-bipyrrole receptors 11 and 13 with four pyrrole rings exhibit 10(4)- and 10(2)-fold selectivity for dihydrogen phosphate, respectively, as inferred from competitive titrations in the presence of tetrabutylammonium acetate.
A new three-component reaction leading to 1-α-(pyridyl-2-[1,2,4]triazolyl)-2-alkyl-ethanones has been discovered while studying the reactivity of monosubstituted 3,3-difluorocyclopropenes in an inverse electronic demand Diels−Alder (IEDDA) cycloaddition−cycloreversion sequence with s-tetrazines. The reaction involving the above-mentioned reactants and (benzo)pyridine as a third component results in a complex transformation proceeding in mild conditions in a stoichiometric ratio of reactants and has high functional group tolerance (phenols, amides, ethers, carboxylic acids, ketones, and acrylic esters). As a result, simple pyridines are selectively functionalized at the α-position in good isolated yields. The reaction mechanism includes a rare azaphilic [4 + 2]cycloaddition step between s-tetrazine and intermediate 1-hydroxyindolizine, suggested after byproduct identification and tracked with a deuterium label. To date, it is only the third known example of skewed azaphilic cycloaddition of tetrazine. The reaction is truly three-component and cannot be effectively performed stepwise.
The reaction between simple pyridines, Michael acceptors (cyclopentenone, N-methylmaleimide), and monoalkyl-3,3-difluorocyclopropenes affords 3-(1-hydroxyindolizin-3-yl)-succinimides or 3-(1-hydroxyindolizin-3-yl)-cyclopentanones in good yields. These air-sensitive products regenerate double bond in the incorporated Michael acceptors by selective and near-quantitative aerobic dehydrogenation, yielding intensively colored dyes. The purple 3-(1-hydroxyindolizin-3-yl)-maleimides are highly electrophilic and react smoothly with N-, S-, and P-nucleophiles at the maleimide double bond, which is again easily restored by aerobic dehydrogenation. In the particular case of hydrazine and hydroxylamine nucleophiles, their Michael adducts with the 3-(1-hydroxyindolizin-3-yl)-maleimides afford the novel pyrimido[6,1,2-cd]indolizin-5-one (5-aza[2.3.3]cyclazin-1-one) heterocyclic core by the proposed double-dehydrogenation–6π-electrocyclization−β-elimination reaction sequence. O-Protected 3-(1-hydroxyindolizin-3-yl)-succinimides are air-stable and not electrophilic. Deprotection returns the ability of the succinimides for aerobic dehydrogenation, yielding the appropriate electrophilic maleimides. This property may be employed in design of the switchable covalent-binding tool, activated by chemical or enzymatic cleavage of the O-protective group. Electron-withdrawing group at the C7 position of the indolizine core directly affects the dehydrogenation rate; hence, it can be used for kinetic tuning. Additionally, new stable indolizinium-based zwitterionic 3-oxo-3H-indolizin-4-ium-1-olate (1-oxo-1H-indolizin-4-ium-3-olate) was accessed by TEMPO oxidation of the C3-free indolizin-1-ol, generated by 3-hydroxypyrrole ring annulation with monoalkylcyclopropenone in situ.
By replacing the pyrazolyl fragment in 3,6-bis(3,5-dimethyl-1Hpyrazol-1-yl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine with 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO), both mono-and disubstitution products have been synthesized. Further interaction of the obtained compounds with O-and N-nucleophiles led to the preparation of a number of polynitrogen tetrazine derivatives, including 2-[6-amino-1,2,4,5-tetrazin-3-yl]-5-nitro-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one and 5-nitro-2-[6-(1H-tetrazol-5-ylamino)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine-3-yl]-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one. The reactions of nucleophilic substitution of symmetrically substituted tetrazine were shown to proceed more selectively. The resulting compounds were identified using 1 H, 13 CNMR spectroscopy, FTIR, LC-MS, and elemental analysis, as well as using X-ray diffraction analysis. The thermal stability of the new compounds was evaluated under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions and their energy characteristics were calculated. An unusual drop in stability was found on going from symmetrically substituted tetrazines to asymmetric ones.
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