Phosphonated bicycles bearing a N-N junction

Article abstract of DOI:10.3987/COM-12-12653

The Diels-Alder reaction between diethyl 1-phosphono-1,3-butadiene and cyclic azo dienophiles, such as 4-phenyl- and 4-methyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5- diones and phthalazine-1,4-dione gave access to phosphonated bicyclic cycloadducts bearing a N-N junction. Various functionalizations (dihydroxylation, hydrogenation and phosphonic ester deprotection) have been performed with success. The selective N-N cleavage was not possible for the preparation of large heterocycles. The coordination properties of selected bicycles were tested by ESI-HRMS.

Full text of DOI:10.3987/COM-12-12653

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Received, 18th December, 2012, Accepted, 11th January, 2013, Published online, 15th January, 2013
DOI: 10.3987/COM-12-12653
PHOSPHONATED BICYCLES BEARING A N-N JUNCTION
Elise Villemin,a Marie-France Herent,b and Jacqueline Marchand-Brynaerta,*
a
Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Condensed Matter and
Nanosciences (IMCN), Bâtiment Lavoisier, place Louis Pasteur 1, B-1348
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
b
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI),
Avenue Mounier 73, B-1200 Bruxelles, Belgium
* Corresponding author: Jacqueline Marchand-Brynaert; Tel.: +32-10-47-27-46;
fax: +32-10-47-41-68; Email: Jacqueline.marchand@uclouvain.be
Abstract – The Diels-Alder reaction between diethyl 1-phosphono-1,3-butadiene
and
cyclic
azo
dienophiles,
such
as
4-phenyl-
and
4-methyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-diones and phthalazine-1,4-dione gave access to
phosphonated bicyclic cycloadducts bearing a N-N junction. Various
functionalizations (dihydroxylation, hydrogenation and phosphonic ester
deprotection) have been performed with success. The selective N-N cleavage was
not possible for the preparation of large heterocycles. The coordination properties
of selected bicycles were tested by ESI-HRMS.
INTRODUCTION
Molecules containing an aza-cyclic structure are of interest in medicinal chemistry. The synthesis of
aminosugars, with a N-N motif, has been developed in the last decade. M. Bols et al. have demonstrated
the biological activities of (-)-1-azafagomine, as a potent competitive inhibitor of almond β-glucosidase,
yeast α-glucosidase and isomaltase (Figure 1, structure A).1 Piperazine-3-carboxylic acid2 (Figure 1,
structure B) has been used for the preparation of biologically active molecules such as monamycin
(antibacterial),3a azinothricin3b
(antitumoral),
chloptosin3c and
lydiamycin3d
derivatives.
Aminophosphonic acids have been prepared as analogs of aminocarboxylic acids used for serine-enzymes
inhibition; due to the tetrahedral geometry of the phosphonate group, it is able to mimic the transition
state of nucleophilic addition to a carbonyl function. Another advantage of the phosphonate function is its
capacity to modify the hydrosolubility of the drug.4 Such molecules have recently demonstrated a good

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protective effect against the phytotoxic action of chloroacetanilide herbicide.5 Two different approaches,
involving an hetero-Diels-Alder (DA) reaction with dialkyl azodicarboxylates as dienophiles, have been
published: either the phosphonate ester group was introduced after the DA reaction with
1-methoxy-l,3-butadiene, by nucleophilic substitution via Lewis acid-catalyzed phosphonylation,6 or the
phosphonate ester group was already present before the DA reaction by using diethyl
1-phosphono-1,3-butadiene as diene.7 This second approach, developed in our laboratory, gave better
yields of molecule C (Figure 1) in two steps from the phosphonodiene.7
Macrocycles including amine and lactam functions constitute a family of alkaloids derived from spermine
and spermidine molecules, endowed with interesting biological activities such as antibiotics and
hypertensives (Figure 1, structure D).8 Among the different strategies of total synthesis for making these
macrocycles, N-N cleavage of bicycles, followed by a ring enlargement was considered as an alternative
route to transamidation strategies.8
OH
CO2H
PO(OH)2
HO
HO
O
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
A
( )
B
( )
C
( )
O
N
O
CO2H
N
H
O
N
N
N
N
N
H
O
O
D
( )
E
( )
F
( )
Figure 1. (-)-1-Azafagomine (A), piperazine-3-carboxylic acid (B) and its phosphonated analog (C),
Celecinnine (D), Cilazapril intermediate (E) and azabicycle for treating arrhythmia (F).
4-Phenyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione (noted PTAD) is described in the literature as a very reactive
dienophile in the DA reaction with carbonated dienes, and as a good enophile in the ene-reaction in the
presence of a hydrogen acceptor group.9 PTAD is more reactive in the [4+2] cycloaddition, compared to
acyclic azo dienophiles, due to its cyclic structure and its fixed cis configuration facilitating the diene
approach. Dienes with particular structures and heterodienes were able to react with PTAD.10 The N-N
junction of the resulting bicycles was never cleaved in order to obtain macrocycles. Contrary to the O-N
bond (oxazine),11 the cleavage of the N-N bond requires more drastic conditions: the most widespread
methodologies for N-N cleavage, with one or both nitrogen atoms involved in an imide/amide function,

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are the hydrogenolysis in the presence of Raney nickel,12 and the reduction with an alkaline metal such as
metallic sodium or lithium.13 No example was found where the N-N junction is part of a bisurea function.
The Diels-Alder reaction/N-N reductive cleavage sequence is rarely used, due to the difficulty to perform
the second step. The strained bicyclic hydrazines, obtained by [4+2] cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene to
acyclic azo compounds,14 and bridgehead bicyclic triazines obtained by intramolecular cycloaddition of
N-acylazo compounds,15 are the exceptions where the N-N bond could be easily cleaved.
Phthalazine-1,4-dione has also been used in DA reactions as heterodienophile and this motif is present in
a few biologically active molecules. A [4+2] cycloaddition was reported with a diene derived from
Grundmann’s ketone,16 affording azasteroids with a promising cytotoxicity on HL-60 tumor cells.17
Cycloadduct of (E)-methyl penta-2,4-dienoate gave after hydrolysis of the ester group, a Cilazapril
precursor (Figure 1, structure E).18 Catalytic hydrogenation of azabicyclic adducts derived from [4+2]
cycloaddition of phthalazine-1,4-dione and cyclo-1,3-hexadiene or cyclo-1,3,5-heptatriene gave
compounds with antiarrhythmia properties (Figure 1, structure F).19
The aim of this article is the study of cycloadducts obtained by DA reaction between
1-phosphono-1,3-butadiene (1) and cyclic azodienophiles, such as PTAD (2a) and
4-methyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione (2b) and phthalazine-1,4-dione (10),20 their further functionalization
and particularly the cleavage of the N-N cyclic junction for the preparation of novel large heterocycles as
potential cage-ligands of cations.21 The coordination properties of the bicyclic precursors are also of
interest.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
During our study of scope and limitations of the DA reaction of diethyl 1-phosphono-1,3-butadiene (1),11
we have observed that the reactivity of this diene is close to the carboxylate analogs. The [4+2]
cycloaddition between 1 and 2a,b, under microwave activation, gave access to bicyclic cycloadducts
bearing a N-N junction (Scheme 1) similarly to methyl 2,4-pentadienoate1a and its chiral derivative22. It is to
note that in our case, no side-products formed from [2+2] cycloaddition were observed. The advancement
of the reaction between 2a and the diene 1 was directly observable by the disappearance of the PTAD red
color. The cycloadduct 3a,b were isolated in good yields.
The selective deprotection of the phosphonic ester by treatment with trimethylsilyl bromide followed by a
methanolysis (McKenna method23) gave the phosphonic acids 4a,b with high yields. The
syn-dihydroxylation of the C=C double bond of the cycloadducts 3a,b could be performed by treatment
with osmium tetroxide salt and N-methyl morpholine oxide (NMO). The relative stereochemistry of the

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diols 5a,b was attributed on the basis of typical NMR coupling constants.7 Interestingly, the deprotection
method of the phosphonate ester worked well on the functionalized cycloadducts 5a to furnish the
corresponding phosphonic acid derivative 6a in moderate yield.
No reaction occurred, or degradation was observed, when using peracids (m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid,
acetic peracid) or peroxides (hydrogen peroxide, trimethylsilyl peroxide) as oxidative agents. Small
amounts of epoxide 7 were formed with sodium dioxide in ethanol at 0 °C, but the experiment revealed
poorly reproducible. The hydrazinolysis of the cycloadducts 3 gave not the expected bicyclic structure 8,
but an open structure by addition of hydrazine on one C=O group. Smooth conditions of catalytic
hydrogenation allowed the selective reduction of the C=C double bond to afford the cycloadducts 9a,b
(Scheme 1).
The direct N-N bond cleavage of cycloadducts 3 has been tested. Conditions required for oxazine bond
cleavage (zinc in acetic acid or samarium diiodide)11 failed in our case, and the cycloadducts 3 were
retrieved intact. Rare examples of N-N bond cleavage by samarium diiodide have been found in the
literature: N-benzoylhydrazines and N-trifluoroacetylhydrazines are cleaved by this reagent.24
Hydrogenation in the presence of catalysts such as palladium or platine on charcoal in neutral or acidic
medium and Raney Nickel in ethanol gave the reduced cycloadducts 9 contaminated by various amounts of
unidentified products.
Lebrun et al. described N-N bond cleavage of molecules bearing a phenyl substituent in α-position or on a
nitrogen atom, using photochemistry.25 The cycloadducts 3 were unreactive under irradiation at 254 nm in
i-PrOH or toluene/n-hexane at room temperature. Reduction of 9 with sodium in liquid ammonia gave a lot
of unidentified products: the phosphonic ester group and the bicyclic structure were totally destroyed. No
reaction was observed when treating the cycloadducts 9 by magnesium in acidic medium.
The preliminary reduction of the imide carbonyl functions seemed necessary to allow the further N-N bond
cleavage by hydrogenolysis.26 The cleavage of a N-N bond at the junction of bicyclic structures has been
observed on α-aminoammonium ions with lithium aluminium hydride as reductive agent.27 In addition, S.
Grabowski et al. proposed the conversion of the urazole ring of a functionalized cycloadduct from PTAD
into an azo bridge in order to easily cleave the N-N bond by hydrogenation in the presence of platinium or
Raney Nickel.28 In our case, the reduction of the carbonyl groups by the action of hydrides was
unfortunately not compatible with the presence of a phosphonic ester function.
All our attempts of N-N bond cleavage from precursors 3 or 9 failed; the access to large heterocycles by the
“hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition/N-N bond reductive cleavage” strategy appeared to be non applicable in
the case of the phosphonated compounds.

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O
O
O
HO
HO
HO
HO
HO
EtO
EtO
HO
P
P
P
O
O
O
2)
N
N
N
N
N
N
N R
N R
N R
HO
HO
O
O
O
6a, 55 %
4a, 99 %
5a, 95 %
4b
5b
, 80 %
, 65 %
2)
3)
O
P
O
EtO
EtO
EtO
EtO
PO(OEt)2
+
P
O
O
O
4)
1)
N
N
1
N
N
N
N
2
O
N R
O
N R
N R
3
4
1
O
O
(traces)
5)
3a, 83 %
7
2a, R = Ph (PTAD)
2b, R = Me
3b
, 75 %
7)
O
6)
EtO
EtO
P
O
O
O
O
EtO
EtO
EtO
EtO
7)
N
N
NH
NH
P
P
O
O
N
H
N
N
N R
N R
8
N
H
O
O
9a, 98 %
9b
, 91 %
Scheme 1. Conditions: 1) (CHCl)2, MW (500W, 120 °C), 30 min; 2) a) TMSBr, CH2Cl2, rt, b) MeOH, rt,
1 h; 3) K2OsO4·2H2O, NMO, acetone, H2O, rt, 24 h; 4) various conditions (peracids: MCPBA, AcO2H,
peroxides: H2O2, TMSO2H, oxides: Na2O2); 5) NH2-NH2·H2O, rt, 24 h; 6) H2 (1 atm.), Pd/C 10 mol%, (0.1
equiv, cat.), EtOH, rt, 18 h; 7) various conditions (reductive agents: Zn, AcOH : H2O (1 : 2); Na, NH3; Mg,
AcOH : H2O (1 : 2); SmI2, THF; LiAlH4, THF; catalytic hydrogenation: Pd/C or Pt/C or Raney Ni, neutral
(EtOH) or acidic medium (AcOH); photochemistry: hν 254 nm, i-PrOH or toluene/n-hexane, rt).
The same conclusions could be drawn with the cycloadduct 11 resulting from the DA reaction of 1 and
phthalazine-1,4-dione (10) prepared in situ by oxidation of phthalhydrazide. The adjustment of the
experimental conditions was delicate because the dienophile 10 is thermally unstable and the
phosphonodiene 1 is poorly reactive at low temperature. Thus the Clement’s method29 was chosen for the
synthesis of 10, i.e. lead tetraacetate at 0-5 °C, instead of the usual treatment by t-butyl hypochlorite at
-50 °C,30 and 10 was directly trapped with the diene 1 at 0 °C to afford the cycloadduct 11 in quite modest
yield. The reductive cleavage of the N-N bond, without destruction of the molecular skeleton, could not be
achieved. However, the selective reduction of the C=C double bond was performed by smooth
hydrogenation, giving the cycloadduct 12, and the syn-dihydroxylation of the C=C double bond was
obtained by osmylation treatment, furnishing the diol 13 (Scheme 2).

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EtO
EtO
O
O
O
O
P
O
1)
2)
HN
HN
N
N
1
N
N
2
3
4
O
O
11
10
, 38 %
4)
O
3)
EtO
EtO
O
EtO
EtO
O
P
O
P
HO
N
N
N
N
HO
O
O
12
13
, 80 %
, 66 %
Scheme 2. Conditions: 1) Pb(OAc)4, MeCN; 2) a) diethyl 1-phosphono-1,3-butadiene 1 (1 equiv), 0 °C,
one pot, 20 min, b) 0 °C, 2h; 3) H2 (1 atm.), Pd/C 10 mol %, (0.1 equiv, cat.), EtOH, rt, 18 h; 4) K2OsO4
2H2O, NMO, acetone, H2O, rt, 24 h.
The coordination properties of the phosphonated tricyclic compounds 12 and 13 have been evaluated in
solution, using the high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) in the electrospray ionisation (ESI) as the
analytical tool. These representative ligands (L) were considered for coordination with di- and trivalent
metal (M) cations in ethanol. Solutions of ligand (0.5 mM) were treated with 5 equiv. of anhydrous
M(II)(ClO4)2 or M(III)(NO3)3 salts, and the mixtures were analyzed by HRMS in the ESI mode, a mild
method allowing the transfer of the complexes in the gas phase with the conservation of noncovalent
bonds. All of the complexes identified were monocharged and possessed one or two poorly coordinating
counteranion(s), that is, one perchlorate anion in the case of a divalent metal and two nitrate anions in the
case of a trivalent metal. The complexes stoichiometries for cycloadducts 12 and 13 were [1L:1M] (with
or without an additional solvent molecule) and [2L:1M]. The results collected in Tables 1 and 2 give the
relative percentages of [1L:1M] and [2L:1M] complexes formed in EtOH, considering the most abundant
complex (for each experiment) as 100%. The corresponding atomic compositions and exact masses are
given in the Supporting Information. [1L:2M] complexes were never observed in the case of ligand 13: so
we conclude, that the diol function has no coordination ability; the carbonyl and phosphoryl functions are
the only efficient groups for coordinating metallic cations, such as in ligand 12. A qualitative scale of
coordination efficiency could be deduced from the ratios of formed complexes versus the free metal (see
Supporting Information): for both ligands 12 and 13, the divalent cations were more easily coordinated
than the trivalent ones. The order of coordination was Mg2+ > Co2+ > Ni2+ > Zn2+ > Fe2+ > Ca2+ for 12 and

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Fe2+ > Co2+ > Ni2+ > Zn2+ > Mg2+ > Ca2+ for 13. As examples the coordination of Fe(II) and Eu(III)
cations is illustrated by their respective HRMS spectra given in Supporting Information.
Table 1. Relative abundance of complexes formed with 12 in EtOH.
cations [LM(ClO4)]+ [LM(ClO4)·EtOH]+ [L2M(ClO4)]+ % L2Ma
Fe2+
Co2+
Ni 2+
Mg2+
Zn2+
Ca2+
%
100
100
100
61
24
40
68
100
37
100
29
40
26
46
33
0
19.1
22.2
13.5
22.4
19.6
0
100
33.3
=
a
L2M
[L2M(ClO4)]+/([LM(ClO4)]+ +[LM(ClO4)·EtOH]+
+
[L2M(ClO4)]+) x 100
cations [LM(NO3)2]+ [LM(NO3)2·EtOH]+ [L2M(NO3)2]+ % L2Ma
Lu3+
Eu3+
Gd3+
La3+
%
53
33
33
50
=
100
100
100
100
13
17
8
8.0
11.1
5.9
10
6.3
a
L2M
[L2M(NO3)2]+/([LM(NO3)2]+ +[LM(NO3)2·EtOH]+
+
[L2M(NO3)2]+) x 100
Table 2. Relative abundance of complexes formed with 13 in EtOH.
cations [LM(ClO4)]+ [LM(ClO4)·EtOH]+ [L2M(ClO4)]+ % L2Ma
Fe2+
Co2+
Ni 2+
Mg2+
Zn2+
Ca2+
%
100
100
62
20
100
28
50
100
100
50
31
44
31
27
44
25
19.3
22.8
16.0
18.2
22.8
16.7
25
=
100
a
L2M
[L2M(ClO4)]+/([LM(ClO4)]+ +[LM(ClO4)·EtOH]+
+
[L2M(ClO4)]+) x 100
cations [LM(NO3)2]+ [LM(NO3)2·EtOH]+ [L2M(NO3)2]+
% L2Ma
7.7
9.1
9.1
9.1
Lu3+
Eu3+
Gd3+
La3+
50
43
33
54
100
100
100
100
13
14
13
15
a
% L2M = [L2M(NO3)2]+/([LM(NO3)2]+ +[LM(NO3)2·EtOH]+
+
[L2M(NO3)2]+) x 100
CONCLUSIONS
Hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between diethyl 1-phosphono-1,3-butadiene and cyclic azo dienophiles gave
access to novel phosphonated bicycles bearing a N-N junction. In spite of many attempts to cleave the N-N

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bond, macrocycles have not been obtained. Selective functionalizations, such as deprotection of
phosphonic ester group and syn-dihydroxylation, gave functionalized cycloadducts with moderate to good
yields. From a HRMS-ESI study, the ligands 12 and 13 presented interesting coordination properties for
divalent cations. By comparison with the ligand 3a,20 the observed [1L:1M] and [2L:1M] coordination
complexes confirmed, that the phosphoryl and carbonyl functions coordinate well the tested metallic
cations. The percentages of [2L:1M] complexes could not be correlated with the ionic radii of the metals,
nor with their hardness. A possible coordination mode is depicted in the Figure 2.
Et
O
H
O
m
[M]
EtO
EtO
X
P
O
N
N
X
n
O
X = H, OH
n = 1, 2
m = 0, 1
Figure 2. Possible coordination mode of the ligands 12 and 13 with a metallic cation M in ethanol. The
coordination sphere of the metallic cation was completed with one perchlorate ion for divalent cation or
with two nitrate ions for trivalent ion.
EXPERIMENTAL
Materials and Methods: Experiments were performed under an atmosphere of dry argon. The chemicals
purchased from Acros Organic, Alfa Aesar and Sigma-Aldrich were of reagent grade and used without
purification. TLC analyses were performed on aluminium plates coated with silica gel Merck 60 F-254
and flash column chromatographies over silica gel (230-400 mesh). Visualization of TLC plates was
performed under a UV lamp (254 nm) and using p-anisaldehyde or KMnO4. Analytical grade solvents
were used for reactions and solvents used for column chromatographies were technical solvents distilled
before use. Reactions under microwave heating were conducted in sealed tubes using MicroSYNTH
equipment (Milestone Srl). NMR spectra were recorded on a Bruker AVANCE II 300 spectrometer
1
13
31
operating at 300 MHz for H, 75 MHz for C and 121 MHz for P, and on a Bruker AVANCE II 500
1
13
31
spectrometer operating at 500 MHz for H, 125 MHz for C, 202 MHz for P. Chemical shifts were
reported in ppm from tetramethylsilane as the internal standard (δ = 0.0 ppm) for 1H spectra. The internal
standard was the deuterated chloroform for the 13C spectra (δ = 77.16 ppm). 31P downfield shifts (δ) were
expressed with a positive sign, using 85% H3PO4 in H2O as external standard. The atoms numbering used
for NMR description is given in Schemes 1 and 2; the dienyl protons were assigned as the proton number

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1 to 4 because this motif was common for all cycloadducts. Melting points (mp) were determined on a
Büchi B-540 apparatus calibrated with caffeine, vanillin and phenacetin. Infrared spectra (IR) were
recorded by transmittance with a Shimadzu FTIR-8400S equipment and the absorption bands are reported
in cm-1. Products were analyzed as thin films deposited on a Se-Zn crystal by evaporation from CHCl3
solutions. The intensity of peaks was noted by (w), (m) and (s), respectively for weak, medium and strong.
Mass spectra (MS) were recorded with a LCQ Finnigan MAT spectrometer and the masses are reported in
Dalton. High Resolution Mass Spectrometry analyses (HRMS) were carried out at the University College
London.
Procedures for the [4+2] cycloadditions
The protocol and spectroscopic characterization of cycloadduct 3a was described in reference 20.
See the Supporting information (compounds 3b and 11).
Typical procedure for the catalytic hydrogenation
A mixture of cycloadduct 3 or 11 (1 equiv), Pd/C (10%, 0.1 equiv) and EtOH (2 mL/0.1 mmol) was
stirred at room temperature overnight under one atmosphere of H2. The reaction mixture was then filtered
over a celite© pad and rinsed with a CH2Cl2/MeOH solution (1:1) (10 mL/0.1 mmol) and concentrated
under reduced pressure.
See the Supporting information (compounds 9a, 9b and 12).
Typical procedure for the syn-dihydroxylation
A solution of cycloadduct 3 or 11 (1.00 equiv) in acetone (0.5 mL/0.1 mmol) was treated successively by
water (0.3 mL/0.1 mmol), NMO (2.60 equiv) and K2OsO4·2H2O (0.02 equiv) at room temperature. After
24 h, toluene was added and the solution was concentrated under reduced pressure. The resulting dark oil
was directly purified by column chromatography on silica gel.
See the Supporting information (compounds 5a, 5b and 13).
Typical procedures for the diethyl phosphonate deprotection
A solution of 3 or 5 (1 equiv), trimethylsilyl bromide (3,1 equiv) and anhydrous CH2Cl2 (0.6 mL/0.1
mmol) was stirred at room temperature under atmosphere of dry argon during for 4 days. The ethyl
bromide by-product, the excess of trimethylsilyl bromide and the solvent were evaporated under reduced
pressure. The reaction mixture was then hydrolyzed with an excess of MeOH (1.6 mL/0.1 mmol) at room
temperature during 1h. The solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure.
See the Supporting information (compounds 4a, 4b and 6a).

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ESI-HRMS
ESI-HRMS analyses were performed with a LTQ-Orbitrap XL hybrid mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher
Scientific, Bremen, Germany). Data were acquired in the positive ion mode, using a fullscan MS with a
mass range of 200–2000 m/z. The orbitrap operated at 30,000 resolution [FWHM (full width at half
maximum) definition]. All experimental data were acquired, along with a daily external calibration prior
to the data acquisition. The appropriate tuning of the electrospray ion source was done to ensure the
preservation of the complexes formed in the solution, but to avoid the detection of adducts formed during
the ESI process. The following electrospray inlet conditions were applied: flow rate, 200 μLmin–1; spray
voltage, 5 kV; sheath gas (N2) flow rate, 20 a.u.; auxiliary gas (N2) flow rate, 20 a.u.; capillary
temperature, 275 °C; capillary voltage, 45 V; and tube lens, 80 V. The salts, which were purchased from
Aldrich, Alpha, or Acros, were of the highest quality available and vacuum dried at room temperature
over P2O5 prior to use. Ethanol from Fisher (absolute) was used for the MS experiments. For all
experiments, the concentration of the ligand was approximately 0.5 mM with 5 equiv. of cation.
Supplementary Information
Included are characterization of new compounds of compounds 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 9a, 9b, 11, 12 and 13,
spectroscopic analysis of compounds 4a, 6a, 5b, 9a, 9b, and 13, the mass spectra of complexes and tables
of exact masses.
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