A 2,3-dialkoxynaphthalene-based naphthocage

Song-Bo Lu; Hongxin Chai; Jas S Ward; Mao Quan; Jin Zhang; Kari Rissanen; Ray Luo; Liu-Pan Yang; Wei Jiang

doi:10.1039/c9cc09585c

A 2,3-dialkoxynaphthalene-based naphthocage

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Jan 18;56(6):888-891. doi: 10.1039/c9cc09585c. Epub 2019 Dec 20.

Authors

Song-Bo Lu¹, Hongxin Chai¹, Jas S Ward², Mao Quan¹, Jin Zhang¹, Kari Rissanen², Ray Luo¹, Liu-Pan Yang³, Wei Jiang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Xueyuan Blvd 1088, Shenzhen, 518055, China. jiangw@sustech.edu.cn.
² University of Jyväskylä, Department of Chemistry, P. O. Box 35, FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland.
³ Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Xueyuan Blvd 1088, Shenzhen, 518055, China. jiangw@sustech.edu.cn and Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Xueyuan Blvd 1088, Shenzhen, 518055, China. yanglp@sustech.edu.cn.
⁴ Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Xueyuan Blvd 1088, Shenzhen, 518055, China. jiangw@sustech.edu.cn and The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China.

PMID: 31858093
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc09585c

Abstract

A 2,3-dialkoxynaphthalene-based naphthocage has been synthesized. This naphthocage prefers to bind small organic cations with its low-symmetry conformation, which is in contrast to 2,6-dialkoxynaphthalene-based naphthocages. Self-sorting of these two naphthocages with two structurally similar guests tetramethylammonium and tetraethylammonium was achieved as well.