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Comba P, Fath A, Hambley TW, et al. Helical Figure-of-Eight Loop Dicopper(I) Compounds: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics. Inorg Chem. 1998;37(17):4389-4401doi: 10.1021/ic980216q.
Comba, P., Fath, A., Hambley, T. W., Kühner, A., Richens, D. T., & Vielfort, A. (1998). Helical Figure-of-Eight Loop Dicopper(I) Compounds: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics. Inorganic chemistry, 37(17), 4389-4401. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic980216q
Comba, Peter, et al. "Helical Figure-of-Eight Loop Dicopper(I) Compounds: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics." Inorganic chemistry vol. 37,17 (1998): 4389-4401. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/ic980216q
Comba P, Fath A, Hambley TW, Kühner A, Richens DT, Vielfort A. Helical Figure-of-Eight Loop Dicopper(I) Compounds: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics. Inorg Chem. 1998 Aug 24;37(17):4389-4401. doi: 10.1021/ic980216q. PMID: 11670576.
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Inorg Chem. 1998 Aug 24;37(17):4389-4401. doi: 10.1021/ic980216q.

Helical Figure-of-Eight Loop Dicopper(I) Compounds: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics.

Inorganic chemistry

Peter Comba, Andreas Fath, Trevor W. Hambley, Andreas Kühner, David T. Richens, Annette Vielfort

Affiliations

  1. Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut der Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, D-69120 Heidelberg, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia, and Department of Chemistry, The University of St. Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK.

PMID: 11670576 DOI: 10.1021/ic980216q

Abstract

The synthesis of a series of nine large macrocyclic ligands with two N(2)S(2) (thioether and Schiff-base imine) binding sites each, with different bridges between the donor atoms of each site (ethylene, o-xylylene, propylene, butylene) and different spacer groups between the two binding sites (p-xylylene, 2,5-dimethyl-p-xylylene, 2,5-dimethoxy-p-xylylene), and the synthesis of a similar ligand with a preorganized double-helical geometry, based on a paracyclophane spacer group, are reported, together with the syntheses and characterizations of the corresponding dicopper(I) compounds. The solid state structures of the dicopper(I) complexes have two tetrahedral copper(I) sites, separated by ca. 8 Å, and a figure-of-eight loop configuration of the ligand with a parallel arrangement of the two substituted benzene spacer groups (benzene.benzene distance of ca. 3.5 Å). All the dicopper(I) compounds have the same double-helical configuration ("twisted ring figure-of-eight loop"). NMR spectroscopy indicates that the monocyclic metal-free ligands have an open, cyclic structure in solution, while the dicopper(I) compounds are folded as in the solid. In acetonitrile there is a fast dynamic equilibrium between two enantiomeric forms of the double-helical dicopper(I) compounds. The fact that copper(I)-donor atom bond breaking is involved in this process is supported by (1)H NMR data and by the X-ray crystal structure analysis of a putative intermediate with each of the two copper(I) centers coordinated to one acetonitrile and three donors of the macrocycle. A second fast dynamic, solvent independent process (epimerization) has been identified in nitromethane and acetonitrile, involving helix inversion with full conservation of the copper(I) coordination.

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