Formation of ring-in-ring complexes between crown ethers and rigid TVBox8+

  • Junling Sun
  • , Marco Frasconi
  • , Zhichang Liu
  • , Jonathan C. Barnes
  • , Yuping Wang
  • , Dongyang Chen
  • , Charlotte L. Stern
  • , J. Fraser Stoddart

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Abstract

A rigid octacationic tetraviologen-based cyclophane, TVBox8+, is reported. It possesses a highly electron-deficient rectangular cavity with a length of 23 Å and width of 6.1 Å and is capable of encapsulating either two small π-aromatic guest molecules, such as PhMe and PhCl, simultaneously, or one large molecule, e.g., bis-1,5-dinaphtho[50]crown-14.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1432-1435
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume51
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 28 2015

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