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Oleg Lukin

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PubMed2006

A photophysical study of terphenyl core oligosulfonimide dendrimers exhibiting high steady-state anisotropy.

The photophysical properties of three dendrimers containing a p-terphenyl core with appended sulfonimide branches of different size and n-octyl chains have been investigated in dichloromethane solution. In the dendrimer absorption spectra contributions from both the branches and the core are clearly identified. The fluorescence spectra show only the characteristic fluorescence of the terphenyl unit. Energy transfer from the appended chromophoric groups to the core does not occur. In the dendrimers, the terphenyl core exhibits a very high fluorescence quantum yield (ca. 0.75) and a short emission lifetime (0.8 ns). These properties allowed investigations of the fluorescence depolarization caused by rotation of the dendrimers. The dendrimers show a very high steady-state anisotropy in dichloromethane solution at room temperature (0.24 for the largest one), compared to that of the parent terphenyl under the same experimental conditions (<0.01) and in rigid matrix (0.33). Both the n-octyl chains and the sulfonimide branches play important roles to slow down the molecular rotation.

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PubMed2006

Toward a reversible isolation of a C20 fullerene inside a tetraureacalix[4]arene dimer. A theoretical study.

The potential stabilization of normally unstable C20, the smallest fullerene, via its encapsulation inside a tetraureacalix[4]arene dimer has been analyzed using molecular mechanics calculations with different force fields, the self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding with dispersion correction (SCC-DFTB-D) model, and standard density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations. The interaction energies obtained for the C20 complex have been compared with analogous values calculated for numerous complexes of the tetraureacalix[4]arene dimer with other guests. Results of the calculations with all force fields and SCC-DFTB-D predict that the binding of C20 occurs with the highest selectivity. On the other hand, standard DFT calculations fail to correctly describe the stabilization of the complexes under study as standard DFT generally does not treat dispersion interactions properly. Predicted relative stabilities of the complexes are discussed in conjunction with available experimental data. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal the instability of the guest-free capsular dimer, which decomposes on a 1-ns time scale, while dimeric complexes with guests remained intact during the 5-ns simulation time, indicating the guest-driven formation of the molecular capsule.

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PubMed2006

Amide-based molecular knots as platforms for fluorescent switches.

A series of amide-based molecular knots equipped selectively with fluorescent dansyl and/or pyrenesulfonyl moieties were synthesized from the readily available tris(allyloxy)knotane. UV/Vis absorption spectra, emission spectra, and the emission lifetimes of the fluorescent knotanes were investigated in chloroform at 298 K. The absorption spectra of the knotanes correspond to those of mixtures of their UV-active constituents. The fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes of the dansyl and pyrenesulfonyl moieties are partly quenched by the knotane platform. In the KN(Da)(2)(Py) species, the fluorescent excited state of the dansyl units (lambda(max)=510 nm) lies at lower energy than the fluorescent excited state of the pyrenesulfonyl unit (lambda(max)=385 nm), the emission of which is accordingly quenched with sensitization of the dansyl fluorescence. In the KN(Ao)(2)(Da), KN(Ao)(Da)(2), and KN(Da)(3) species, the addition of acids causes the protonation of their dansyl units with a consequent decrease in the intensity of the dansyl band at 510 nm and appearance of the emission band of the protonated dansyl unit (lambda(max)=340 nm). Each dansyl unit of KN(Ao)(Da)(2) and KN(Da)(3) undergoes the independent protonation. In these incompletely protonated knotanes the fluorescence of the protonated dansyl units is partly quenched by nonprotonated ones. These processes can be quantitatively reversed upon addition of a base. In KN(Da)(2)(Py), an increase of the fluorescence of its pyrenesulfonyl group is observed when the dansyl groups are protonated. The results obtained show that the readily available and easily functionalizable amide-knotanes can be used as an interesting scaffold to obtain fluorescent switches.

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PubMed2006

Designer dendrimers: branched oligosulfonimides with controllable molecular architectures.

The synthesis of "designer" dendrimers and dendrons with sulfonimide units at every branching point is reported. The synthesis is based on a series of (regio)selective functionalization reactions of amines and sulfonamides allowing precise control of the dendrimers' shape, the number of branches in each generation, and their peripheral decoration with functional groups. In principle, structurally different branches can be incorporated at any position within the dendrimer structure at will. Structurally perfect symmetrical and two-faced "Janus"-type dendrimers, as well as dendrimers and dendrons with intended interstices were synthesized on a preparative scale and fully characterized. Oligosulfonimide dendrons of various generations bearing an aryl bromide functional group at their focal points were attached to a p-phenylene core with the aid of Suzuki cross-coupling reactions resulting in dendrimers with photoactive terphenyl cores. The structure and the high purity of all dendritic sulfonimides were confirmed by means of (1)H and (13)C NMR, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), and elemental analysis. The utility of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for the analytical characterization of these dendrimers was evaluated in comparison to electrospray ionization. Two model branched oligosulfonimides were characterized in the solid state by single-crystal X-ray analysis. Reaction selectivities and conformation of sulfonimide branching points were rationalized by DFT calculations.

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PubMed2005

A combined ESI- and MALDI-MS(/MS) study of peripherally persulfonylated dendrimers: false negative results by MALDI-MS and analysis of defects.

Mass spectrometry, in particular MALDI-MS, has often been used as a valuable means to characterize dendritic molecules with respect to their molecular masses. Also, it is a valuable tool for analyzing potential defects in their structure which result from incomplete synthetic steps. This article presents a comparison of ESI and MALDI mass spectrometric experiments on dendrimers persulfonylated at their periphery. While the ESI mass spectra easily permit impurities and defects to be identified and thus provide evidence for sample purity, reactions with acidic matrices occur during the MALDI process. The resulting defects are identical to those expected from incomplete substitution. Thus, in these cases, MALDI-MS yields false negative results. With mass-selected, ESI-generated ions, collision experiments were performed in an FT-ICR mass spectrometer cell to provide detailed insight into the fragmentation patterns of the various dendrimers. Different fragmentation patterns are observed depending on the exact structure of the dendrimer. Also, the nature of the charge is important. The fragmentation reactions for protonated species differ much from those binding a sodium or potassium ion. These differences can be traced back to different sites for binding H+ versus Na+ or K+. Tandem MS experiments on mass-selected dendrimer ions with defects can be used to distinguish different types of defects. A concise structural assignment can thus be made on the basis of these experiments. Even mixtures of two isobaric defect variants with the same elemental composition can be identified.

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PubMed2005

Knotting and threading of molecules: chemistry and chirality of molecular knots and their assemblies.

How and why do molecules tangle or thread? Investigations of molecular knots (knotanes) may shed some light on the mechanisms of (supra)molecular templation and the folding of molecules that result in intertwining. The topological chirality of these fascinating molecules leads to new types of isomerism and paves the way to nanosized molecular motors. Their preparation and derivatization makes high demands on modern synthetic methods and analytical separation since molecular knots are formed in a more or less planned design based on metal coordination or hydrogen-bonding patterns. This Review describes the development of templation techniques for the synthesis of knotanes and their chiral resolution as well as their selective functionalization and use as building blocks in the synthesis of higher knotane assemblies. Such assemblies can possess linear, branched, or even macrocyclic structures which, on the one hand, introduce unprecedented isomeric compositions that arise from multiple topological stereogenic units and, on the other, define new types of artificial macromolecules beyond polymers and dendritic species.

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PubMed2004

Topologically chiral covalent assemblies of molecular knots with linear, branched, and cyclic architectures.

Selectively functionalized molecular knots (knotanes) of the amide-type have been used as building blocks in syntheses of higher covalent assemblies composed of up to four knotane units. Preparation of linear and branched tetraknotanes consisted of the consecutive selective removal of allyl groups followed by linking of the intermediate hydroxyknotanes with biphenyl-4,4'-disulfonyl chloride. Macrocyclic knotane oligomers involving two, three, and four knotane moieties were obtained by high-dilution cyclization of dihydroxyknotane and biphenyl-4,4'-disulfonyl chloride. Due to their relation with cyclophanes, the latter class of oligomeric knotanes was termed "knotanophanes". Chiral resolution analysis of new oligoknotanes has been attempted on chemically bonded Chiralpak AD stationary phases, however met severe difficulties due to their complex isomeric compositions, and in most cases a significant overlap of the isomer fractions was observed. In spite of the limits of presently available chiral stationary phases that allowed only partial resolution of the synthesized topologies, oligoknotanes have been shown to be of high fundamental interest due to their unprecedented chirality. The chirality descriptions of topologically chiral unsymmetrical dumbbell 4, and the linear tetraknotane 5 are analogous to the Fischer projections of erythrose/threose and hexaric acid, respectively, while the isomeric composition of the branched tetraknotane 8 is completely unique. Moreover, the linear and branched tetraknotanes are constitutional isomers. Chirality of knotanophanes represents, in turn, analogies to known cyclic forms of peptides or sugars with multiple stereogenic centers.

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PubMed2004

Residual topological isomerism of intertwined molecules.

The growing number of molecular assemblies with unusual geometry and topology requires from time to time a revision of certain aspects of stereochemistry. The present paper analyzes several representatives of intertwined molecules that have bridges connecting their loops. In spite of the experimentally proven chirality, these species lack elements of both classical and topological chirality. Due to the relationship of these types of molecules to the well-recognized topologically nontrivial compounds, such as catenanes and knots, we propose the term "residual topology" illustrated by a simple scheme of excessive or missing bridges that could be excluded or included, respectively, in molecular graphs of these species to render them topologically nontrivial. This concept paper represents, therefore, an update on the currently applied nomenclature.

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PubMed2004

Controllable, selective per-functionalization of dendritic oligoamines.

A method allowing for an unprecedented controllable functionalization of oligoamines via N,N-bis-sulfonylation with various sulfonyl chlorides has been developed. Depending on the nature of the sufonyl chloride and reaction conditions such as base, time of reaction, and temperature, each amino group can be selectively mono- or bis-sufonylated. The procedure was investigated in detail with the model substance tris(2-aminoethyl)amine and applied for the preparation of dumbbell-shaped coupled dendrons and second-generation sulfonimide-decorated dendrimers.

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PubMed2003

Covalent chemistry and conformational dynamics of topologically chiral amide-based molecular knots.

The readily available in gram quantities tris(allyloxy)knot of the amide-type 5 (knotane) can be completely and partially deprotected with nBu(3)SnH in the presence of a palladium catalyst resulting in hydroxyknotanes 7-9. These, in turn, react with diethylchlorophosphate giving rise to knotanes equipped with between one and three phosphoryl groups. Sulfonylation of bis(allyloxy)monohydroxyknotane 8 with p-toluenesulfonyl chloride and, following removal of one or two allyl groups from the intermediate monosulfonate 13, give rise to sulfonyloxy-allyloxy-hydroxy- and sulfonyloxy-dihydroxy-knotanes 15 and 14, respectively. This provides a convenient method for the preparation of knotanes with any substitution pattern. All new knotanes have been isolated in preparative amounts and as highly pure substances with an exception of allyloxy-dihydroxyknotane 9. This compound could only be obtained as a mixture with the corresponding monohydroxy-derivative 8. The structures of all synthesized compounds were established by means of FAB and MALDI TOF mass spectrometry, (1)H and (31)P NMR spectroscopy. The triphosphorylated knotane 10 exhibits high solubility in alcohols, allowing its complete enantiomeric resolution with a commercially available chiral HPLC column. (1)H,(1)H DQF-COSY correlation spectroscopy along with H/D exchange experiments and ab initio calculations provided the first detailed (1)H NMR signal assignments of knotanes in [D(6)]DMSO solution. The combination of variable temperature (1)H and (31)P NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling has been applied to study the conformational behavior of the new knotanes in different solvents. It has been shown that in DMSO solution at room temperature knotanes exist in a relatively rigid nonsymmetrical conformation similar to that found in the solid state while faster conformational exchange leading to the average D(3) symmetrical structure was detected in a number of other solvents.

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PubMed1999

1H and (13)C NMR and Molecular Dynamics Study of Chiral Recognition of Camphor Enantiomers by alpha-Cyclodextrin.

1H and (13)C NMR spectra of the complexes of camphor enantiomers with alpha-cyclodextrin in D(2)O manifest splittings due to chiral recognition. The complexes were found to be of 1:2 guest-to-host stoichiometry. Free energies of the complex formation obtained from (1)H NMR titration data are equal to -7.95 +/- 0.09 kcal mol(-)(1) for the complex with (1S,4S)- and -7.61 +/- 0.06 kcal mol(-)(1) for that with (1R,4R)-enantiomer. Thus, the free energy difference between the complexes is equal to 0.34 +/- 0.11 kcal mol(-)(1), with the complex involving the (1S,4S)-camphor more stable. A strong positive cooperativity of the guests binding has been found. In agreement with experimental results, molecular dynamics simulations yielded greater stability of the complex with (1S,4S)-camphor. However, they reproduced only qualitatively the experimental trend since the corresponding difference in average energies obtained from molecular dynamic simulations carried out in a water solution is equal to 5 kcal/mol with the CVFF force field.

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