Dynamic interconversion between large covalent organic cages was achieved simply by heating or acid/base treatment. A mixture of the boroxine cages 12-mer and 15-mer was cleanly converted into a pyridine adduct of the 9-mer boroxine cage upon treatment with pyridine, and the geometry of N-coordinated boron atoms changed from trigonal to tetrahedral. The reverse reaction was achieved by heating or acid treatment. In this process, the larger boroxine cages 12-mer and 15-mer were found to be entropically favored owing to the release of free pyridine molecules from 9-mer⋅6 Py.
A new chiral probe molecule for mono‐alcohols is developed by using 1,2‐dihydro‐1‐hydroxy‐2,3,1‐benzodiazaborine (DAB) bearing an acridine moiety 1. In the presence of mono‐alcohols, DAB 1 forms borate 2 by boronic ester formation, followed by coordination of the acridine moiety to the boron atom. Borate 2 has a chiral center on the boron atom and works as a stereodynamic circular dichroism (CD) probe molecule for chiral mono‐alcohols based on the π–π interaction between the acridine moiety and the carbon–carbon unsaturated moiety on mono‐alcohols.
Guest‐controlled diastereoselective self‐assembly of a diboryltellurophene and a chiral tetrol bearing an indacene backbone was achieved to give either hetero‐ or homochiral macrocyclic boronic esters, selectively. The heterochiral isomer (hetero‐[2+2]Te) exhibited a higher inclusion ability for electron‐deficient aromatic guests, leading to effective quenching of phosphorescence from the diboryltellurophene moieties. The reported macrocycles collectively represent a promising arene sensing approach based on phosphorescence.
Dynamic interconversion between large covalent organic cages was achieved simply by heating or acid/base treatment. A mixture of the boroxine cages 12‐mer and 15‐mer was cleanly converted into a pyridine adduct of the 9‐mer boroxine cage upon treatment with pyridine, and the geometry of N‐coordinated boron atoms changed from trigonal to tetrahedral. The reverse reaction was achieved by heating or acid treatment. In this process, the larger boroxine cages 12‐mer and 15‐mer were found to be entropically favored owing to the release of free pyridine molecules from 9‐mer⋅6 Py.
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