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Catenanes German Edition: DOI: 10.1002/Ange.201411619 Catenanes: Fifty Years of Molecular Links Guzm�N Gil-Ram�Rez, David A Angewandte. Reviews D. A. Leigh et al. International Edition: DOI: 10.1002/anie.201411619 Catenanes German Edition: DOI: 10.1002/ange.201411619 Catenanes: Fifty Years of Molecular Links Guzmn Gil-Ramrez, David A. Leigh,* and Alexander J. Stephens Keywords: catenanes · interlocked molecules · links · supramolecular chemistry · template synthesis Angewandte Chemie 6110 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 6110 – 6151 Ü Ü These are not the final page numbers! Angewandte Catenane Synthesis Chemie Half a century after Schill and Lttringhaus carried out the first From the Contents directed synthesis of a [2]catenane, a plethora of strategies now exist for the construction of molecular Hopf links (singly interlocked rings), 1. Introduction 6111 the simplest type of catenane. The precision and effectiveness with 2. Synthesis of Hopf Link (Singly which suitable templates and/or noncovalent interactions can arrange Interlocked) [2]Catenanes 6116 building blocks has also enabled the synthesis of intricate and often beautiful higher order interlocked systems, including Solomon links, 3. Higher Order Linear and Radial Borromean rings, and a Star of David catenane. This Review outlines [n]Catenanes 6125 the diverse strategies that exist for synthesizing catenanes in the 21st 4. Higher Order Entwined century and examines their emerging applications and the challenges [n]Catenanes 6130 that still exist for the synthesis of more complex topologies. 5. Catenanes as Switches, Rotary Motors, and Sensors 6134 1. Introduction 6. Catenane Linkages Incorporated into Polymer Over the last fifty years, research into the synthesis of Chains, Materials, and interlocked molecules has evolved from a concept viewed Attached to Surfaces 6140 with some scepticism to a reality in which ways to harness the properties afforded by mechanical bonding are now being 7. Conclusions and Outlook 6143 sought. Catenanes are at the forefront of efforts to make artificial molecular machines and to exploit the dynamics of interlocked structures in polymers, MOFs, and other materi- research groups of Ruzˇicˇka,[4] Ziegler,[5] Prelog,[6] Stoll,[7] and als. Their study has led to significant developments that have others,[8] and the discovery of cyclic molecules in various implications not only in supramolecular chemistry but across synthetic polymer-forming reactions,[9] speculation about the a range of scientific disciplines from biology to soft matter existence of catenanes—and their designed synthesis—gained physics. Here we review the synthetic tactics that have been fresh impetus. In 1953 Frisch, Martin, and Mark postulated employed in the formation of catenanes, including the various that the liquid/waxy appearance of high-molecular-weight template techniques and methods used in the contextual polysiloxanes might be due to the presence of large inter- synthesis of singly interlocked [2]catenanes (Section 2), locked rings acting as plasticizers.[10] The following year strategies for higher order interlocked structures (Sections 3 Lttringhaus and Cramer began working on synthetic routes and 4), the properties of catenanes (Section 5), and their to catenanes (e.g. 1), building on efforts by Cramers group to incorporation into materials and onto surfaces (Section 6). make rotaxanes as early as 1950.[11] An unsuccessful early The vast literature featuring interlocked molecular rings attempt to make a catenane, based on the cyclization of an means that only examples of the most significant advances of inclusion complex (2)ofapara-disubstituted benzene (3) the last fifty years could be covered. All of the cap-and-stick within a cyclodextrin (4), was published in 1958[11] (Sche- structures shown in the Review are original representations me 1a).[12] produced from coordinates taken from the Cambridge The first [2]catenane for which evidence was put forward Structural Database (CSD). in support of its structure was synthesized two years later by Wasserman.[1] IR spectroscopy indicated that a small (ca. 0.0001%)[1b] fraction of the product obtained through 1.1. Historical Background the acyloin condensation of diester 6 in the presence of deuterated macrocycle 5 contained both deuterium atoms and The earliest known mention of the possibility of mechan- the acyloin (-COCHOH-) group. It seems that this combina- ically linked cyclic molecules, structures later termed “cate- tion of functional groups in a single molecule can only result nanes”[1] is attributed[2] to the 1915 Nobel Laureate in from this reaction through the formation of a catenane, 7 Chemistry, Richard Willsttter, in a seminar in Zrich some (Scheme 1b), although no definitive proof of the structure time in the period 1906–1912. Unfortunately, the nature of (e.g. from mass spectrometry) was ever presented.[1b] After that discussion is lost in the mists of time, but it is remarkable oxidative cleavage of the acyloin group in the fraction of the that the notion of interlocked molecules was raised at all in an reaction products containing the putative catenane, a small era that predated the assertion of Staudinger (Willsttter’s amount of 5 was recovered, again supporting the suggestion successor at the then newly named “Eidgençssische Techni- sche Hochschule” in Zrich) that polymers were covalently [*] Dr. G. Gil-Ramrez, Prof. D. A. Leigh, A. J. Stephens bonded molecular chains and even before the existence of School of Chemistry, University of Manchester macrocycles—the putative components of catenanes—was Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL (UK) [3] known. Half a century on, following pioneering studies on E-mail: [email protected] the synthesis of medium and large cyclic molecules by the Homepage: http://www.catenane.net Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 6110 – 6151 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim www.angewandte.org 6111 These are not the final page numbers! Ü Ü . Angewandte D. A. Leigh et al. Reviews Scheme 1. a) Attempted synthesis of a [2]catenane by Lttringhaus and Cramer (1958). Complexation between dithiol 3 and a-cyclodextrin 4 Scheme 2. Schill and Lttringhaus’s directed synthesis of a [2]catenane [14] led to a threaded inclusion complex (2), but subsequent oxidation did (1964). not afford catenane 1.[11] b) Wasserman’s 1960 synthesis of a [2]cate- [14] nane (7) by statistical threading of diester 6 through macrocycle 5 (Scheme 2). In their stepwise route, the positioning of the during an acyloin condensation.[1] amino group within the macrocyclic cavity of intermediate 8, together with the electrophilic alkyl chlorides situated above that the deuterated cycloalkane was a component of and below the plane of the macrocycle, is key in directing a mechanically interlocked molecule. To date, 7 remains the intramolecular cyclization to give the threaded structure 9. only catenane synthesized that incorporates a fully saturated Cleavage of the aryl–nitrogen bond afforded [2]catenane 10 cycloalkane. in 15 steps from a readily obtainable phosphonium salt. This In their seminal 1961 discussion of “Chemical Topology”[2] first example remained one of the most efficient demonstra- Frisch and Wasserman began to consider ways of overcoming tions of catenane synthesis for almost 20 years, only super- the limitations of statistical methods, and suggested the use of seded by Sauvage’s application of template methods (see molecular scaffolds and directed synthesis to obtain mechan- Section 2.1). The ingenuity demonstrated in the Schill and ically interlocked links and knots.[13] The experimental Lttringhaus 1964 synthesis was the forerunner of chemists realization of a covalent-bond-directed catenane synthesis applying their imagination and skills to the synthesis of by Schill and Lttringhaus followed shortly afterwards interlocked molecules for the next half-century. Guzmn Gil-Ramrez obtained his BSc at Alexander Stephens studied for an MChem Jaume I University (Castelln, Spain). He at the University of Sheffield (UK), and was moved to Tarragona (Spain) in 2005 and awarded the WebElements prize on graduat- completed his PhD under the supervision of ing in 2011. He began his PhD in 2012 Prof. Ballester at ICIQ studying anion-p under the supervision of Prof. David Leigh, interactions and self-assembled molecular initially based at the University of Edinburgh capsules. In 2010 he moved to Oxford work- (UK) but later relocated with the group to ing with Prof. Anderson and Prof. Briggs the University of Manchester (UK). He is developing N@C60-based materials for working on the development of new syn- quantum information processing. In 2013 he thetic tactics towards topologically complex joined Prof. Leigh’s group. His research molecules. interests include organic functional materials and controlled molecular motion. 6112 www.angewandte.org 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 6110 – 6151 Ü Ü These are not the final page numbers! Angewandte Catenane Synthesis Chemie synthetic routes to circumvent the formation of [3]catenane isomers, but these ultimately proved unsuccessful.[16] In the late 1950s Frisch and Wasserman[2] and van Gulick[17] independently conceived an alternative synthetic strategy to knots, catenanes, and other topologically complex structures: the “Mçbius strip approach”. A Mçbius strip is a paradromic ring with a half-twist: that is a surface with only one side and one boundary component, formed by twisting a strip and connecting the ends to form a loop. If a paradromic ring is cut along its center, a single ring, link, or knot results (a half-twist Mçbius strip affords a ring, even numbers of half twists give links, odd numbers of half twists give knots). In chemical terms the macrocyclization of a ladder-shaped molecule can, in principle, generate loops with differing numbers of twists (Figure 1). Cleavage of the ladder “rungs” would afford various topoisomers (Figure 1c). Figure 1. The “Mçbius strip” approach to generating different topolog- [15] Scheme 3. Schill’s directed synthesis of a [3]catenane (1969). ical isomers. The macrocyclization of a ladder-shaped molecule (a) can form a range of cyclic molecules containing different numbers of twists (b).
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