Inducing social self-sorting in organic cages to tune the shape of the internal cavity
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Journal Article
Abstract
Many interesting target guest molecules have low symmetry, yet most methods for synthesising hosts result in highly symmetrical capsules. Methods of generating lower symmetry pores are thus required to maximise the binding affinity in host-guest complexes. Herein, we use mixtures of tetraaldehyde building blocks with cyclohexanediamine to access low-symmetry imine cages. Whether a low-energy cage is isolated can be correctly predicted from the thermodynamic preference observed in computational models. The stability of the observed structures depends on the geometrical match of the aldehyde building blocks. One bent aldehyde stands out as unable to assemble into high-symmetry cages-and the same aldehyde generates low-symmetry socially self-sorted cages when combined with a linear aldehyde. We exploit this finding to synthesise a family of low-symmetry cages containing heteroatoms, illustrating that pores of varying geometries and surface chemistries may be reliably accessed through computational prediction and self-sorting.
Date Issued
2020-09-14
Date Acceptance
2020-06-12
Citation
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59 (38), pp.16755-16763
ISSN
1433-7851
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
16755
End Page
16763
Journal / Book Title
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Volume
59
Issue
38
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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Sponsor
The Royal Society
Commission of the European Communities
The Royal Society
The Leverhulme Trust
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32542926
Grant Number
UF120469
758370
URF\R\180012
RPG-2018-239
Subjects
cage compounds
molecular materials
multi-component self-assembly
self-sorting
supramolecular chemistry
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Germany
Date Publish Online
2020-06-15