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Divergent Synthesis of Molecular Winch Prototypes
Gisbert, Yohan,Abid, Seifallah,Kammerer, Claire,Rapenne, Gwéna?l
supporting information, p. 16242 - 16249 (2021/10/16)
We report the synthesis of conceptually new prototypes of molecular winches with the ultimate aim to investigate the work performed by a single ruthenium-based molecular motor anchored on a surface by probing its ability to pull a load upon electrically-driven directional rotation. According to a technomimetic design, the motor was embedded in a winch structure, with a long flexible polyethylene glycol chain terminated by an azide hook to connect a variety of molecular loads. The structure of the motor was first derivatized by means of two sequential cross-coupling reactions involving a penta(4-halogenophenyl)cyclopentadienyl hydrotris(indazolyl)borate ruthenium(II) precursor and the resulting benzylamine derivative was next exploited as key intermediate in the divergent synthesis of a family of nanowinch prototypes. A one-pot method involving sequential peptide coupling and Cu-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition was developed to yield four loaded nanowinches, with load fragments encompassing triptycene, fullerene and porphyrin moieties.
Expedient Synthesis of Thioether-Functionalized Hydrotris(indazolyl)borate as an Anchoring Platform for Rotary Molecular Machines
Erbland, Guillaume,Gisbert, Yohan,Rapenne, Gwéna?l,Kammerer, Claire
, p. 4731 - 4739 (2018/09/14)
Major improvements in the synthesis of surface-mounted rotary molecular machines based on ruthenium(II) complexes are reported. The development of a one-pot indium(III)-mediated “N-deprotection/ester reductive sulfidation” sequence allowed step economy, reproducibility and high efficiency in the synthesis of the thioether-functionalized tripodal ligand. Switching to the thallium salt of hydrotris(indazolyl)borate and to microwave heating further optimized the preparation of the common intermediate in the modular synthesis of symmetric and dissymmetric molecular motors and gears. The penta(4-bromophenyl)cyclopentadienyl ruthenium(II) key precursor is now reproducibly synthesized in 5 steps and 31 % overall yield on the longest linear sequence. Subsequent fivefold Suzuki–Miyaura coupling with ferroceneboronic acid led to a new C5-symmetric pentaferrocenyl molecular motor.
