TY - JOUR
T1 - Photoresponsive crown ethers. Part 14. Photoregulated crown-metal complexation by competitive intramolecular tail(ammonium)-biting
AU - Shinkai, Seiji
AU - Ishihara, Midori
AU - Ueda, Kaori
AU - Manabe, Osamu
PY - 1985/1/1
Y1 - 1985/1/1
N2 - New photoresponsive crown ethers (1H+) having a crown ether ring and an ammoniumalkyl [H3N+-(CH2)n, n = 4,6,10] group attached to the two sides of an azobenzene have been synthesized. These photoresponsive 'tail-biting' crown ethers have been designed so that intramolecular 'biting' of the ammonium group to the crown can only occur upon photoisomerisation to the cis-forms. In the thermal cis-trans isomerisation, the first-order rate constants for cis- (1H+) were smaller by 1.6-2.2-fold than those for (1) (the analogous free amines). Moreover, this rate increased with increasing added K+ concentration. This suggests that the ammonium tail is intramolecularly bound to the crown ether ring in cis-(1H+). This intramolecular 'biting' is further reflected in the relative affinities of (1H+) for alkali-metal cations. The affinities were markedly reduced by u.v.-light irradiation and in particular, cis- (1H+) (n = 6) and cis-(1H+)(n = 10) showed almost no metal-binding ability. This marked difference in the metal-binding ability was used to generate the light-controlled systems for the passive or active ion-transport of ions across a liquid membrane.
AB - New photoresponsive crown ethers (1H+) having a crown ether ring and an ammoniumalkyl [H3N+-(CH2)n, n = 4,6,10] group attached to the two sides of an azobenzene have been synthesized. These photoresponsive 'tail-biting' crown ethers have been designed so that intramolecular 'biting' of the ammonium group to the crown can only occur upon photoisomerisation to the cis-forms. In the thermal cis-trans isomerisation, the first-order rate constants for cis- (1H+) were smaller by 1.6-2.2-fold than those for (1) (the analogous free amines). Moreover, this rate increased with increasing added K+ concentration. This suggests that the ammonium tail is intramolecularly bound to the crown ether ring in cis-(1H+). This intramolecular 'biting' is further reflected in the relative affinities of (1H+) for alkali-metal cations. The affinities were markedly reduced by u.v.-light irradiation and in particular, cis- (1H+) (n = 6) and cis-(1H+)(n = 10) showed almost no metal-binding ability. This marked difference in the metal-binding ability was used to generate the light-controlled systems for the passive or active ion-transport of ions across a liquid membrane.
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U2 - 10.1039/p29850000511
DO - 10.1039/p29850000511
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:37049094708
SP - 511
EP - 518
JO - Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2
JF - Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2
SN - 1470-1820
IS - 4
ER -