Macrocyclic compounds

As noted in Section 3.1.2, the introduction of the crown ethers in the late 1960s gave legitimacy to the concept of stable coordination complexes of the alkali metals. Their presence, and that of many other macrocyclic counterparts (e.g., porphyrins) and three-dimensional chelators (e.g., cryptands, calixar-enes) is now pervasive in both alkali and alkaline-earth coordination chemistry, and the literature on these complexes is vast. Early work in this area was summarized in CCC (1987), and examined in a more focused manner in Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry. It is not the intent of this section to repeat such material, but rather to highlight new developments since the mid-1990s. In some cases, specialist reviews are available on these subjects they will be noted where relevant. 

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If one heats acetone and pyrrole in the presence of catalytic amounts of acid, so-called acetone pyrrole is formed in over 80%i yield. This colorless, macrocyclic compound contains four pyrrole units which are connected by dimethylmethylene bridges, ft is formed by electrophilic-a-substitution of pyrrole by acetone, acid-catalyzed oligomerization, and spontaneous. 

The intramolecular allylation of soft carbon nucleophiles with allylic acetates as a good cyclization method has been extensively applied to syntheses of various three, four, five and six-membered rings, and medium and macrocyclic compounds[44]. Only a few typical examples of the cyclizations are treated among numerous applications. 

Intramolecular allylation offers a useful synthetic method for macrocyclic compounds. An application to the synthesis of humulene (83) by the cycliza-... 

Cyclodextrins are macrocyclic compounds comprised of D-glucose bonded through 1,4-a-linkages and produced enzymatically from starch. The greek letter which proceeds the name indicates the number of glucose units incorporated in the CD (eg, a = 6, /5 = 7, 7 = 8, etc). Cyclodextrins are toroidal shaped molecules with a relatively hydrophobic internal cavity (Fig. 6). The exterior is relatively hydrophilic because of the presence of the primary and secondary hydroxyls. The primary C-6 hydroxyls are free to rotate and can partially block the CD cavity from one end. The mouth of the opposite end of the CD cavity is encircled by the C-2 and C-3 secondary hydroxyls. The restricted conformational freedom and orientation of these secondary hydroxyls is thought to be responsible for the chiral recognition inherent in these molecules (77). 

Other commonly occurring chemical groups ia essential oils iaclude aromatics such as P-phenethyl alcohol, eugenol, vanillin, ben2aldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, etc heterocycHcs such as iadole (qv), pyra2iaes, thia2oles, etc hydrocarbons (Liaear, branched, saturated, or unsaturated) oxygenated compounds such as alcohols, acids, aldehydes, ketones, ethers and macrocyclic compounds such as the macrocyclic musks, which can be both saturated and unsaturated. 

ZINKE ZIEGLER Synthesiso1 Cahxarenes Synthesis of calixarenes (a basket-llke macrocyclic compound)... 

The organization of Part Two is according to structural type. The first section, Chapter Seven, is concerned with the synthesis of macrocyclic compounds. Syntheses of a number of heterocyclic target structures appear in Chapter Eight. Sesquiterpenoids and polycyclic higher isoprenoids are dealt with in Chapters Nine and Ten, respectively. The remainder of Part Two describes syntheses of prostanoids (Chapter Eleven) and biologically active acyclic polyenes including leukotrienes and other eicosanoids (Chapter Twelve). 

Bradshaw and his coworkers have listed several motivations for their explorations in this area. One objective of [the] research program is to prepare and study a series of multi-dentate compounds which resemble naturally occurring macrocyclic compounds . Further, Bradshaw and his coworkers have said that it is our hope that we can prepare macrocycles to mimic the selectivities of the naturally occurring cyclic antibiotics and thereby make available models for the investigation of biological cation transportation and selectivity processes . These workers have presented a number of comparisons with valinomy-cin . The other expressly stated goal of their research is to prepare molecules which will allow us to systematically examine the parameters which affect complex stability and to understand that stability in terms of AH and TAS values for complex formation . 

The use of macrocyclic compounds of the thiophene series for the preparation of macrocyclic alicyclie ketones has been mentioned earlier. " A new synthesis of exaltone has been carried out using (136) as the starting material. ... 

Amine bound to a Wang-polystyrene resin 381 was acylated with 4-oxo-4Ff-pyrido[l,2-u]pyrazine-3-carboxylic acid in the presence of bromotrispyrrolidinophosphonium hexafluorophosphate and /-Pr2NEt in A-methylpyrrolidone (98MIP16). l-(4-Cyclohexyl-4-r / r-butylaminocarbo-nyl-l-piperidyl)-2-(4-fluorophenyl)ethylamine was acylated with perhydro-pyrido[l,2-u]pyrazine-3-carboxylic acid (01MIP19). An amino group of a macrocyclic compound attached to a solid support was acylated with... 

Izatt, R. M., Christensen, J. J, (eds.) Synthetic Multidentate Macrocyclic Compounds, New York, Academic Press 1978... 

Lamb, J. D., Izatt, R. M., Christensen, J. J., Eatough, D. J. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Cation-Macrocycle Interaction, in Coordination Chemistry of Macrocyclic Compounds (ed. Melson, G. A.), p. 145-217, New York, Plenum Press 1979... 

Melson, G. A. (ed.) Coordination Chemistry of Macrocyclic Compounds, Plenum Press, New York and London 1979... 

Rossa, L., Vogtle, F. Synthesis of Medio- and Macrocyclic Compounds by High Dilution Principle Techniques, 113, 1-86 (1983). 

Poly (macrocyclic) compounds. The analytical application of compounds such as crown polyethers and cryptands is based on their ability to function as ligands and form stable stoichiometric complexes with certain cations. Special importance is due to their preference for alkali metal ions which do not form complexes with many other ligands. A number of these compounds are commercially available and their properties and analytical applications have been described by Cheng et a/.11... 

Since then, the metathesis reaction has been extended to other types of alkenes, viz. substituted alkenes, dienes and polyenes, and to alkynes. Of special interest is the metathesis of cycloalkenes. This gives rise to a ring enlargement resulting in macrocyclic compounds and eventually poly-... 

The first reaction is the initiation step and the other two form the propagation sequence. This sequence leads to the formation of macrocyclic compounds, which can be decomplexed by an exchange reaction of the following type ... 

Pedersen, Cram and Lehn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for their work on synthetic macrocyclic compounds. In their Nobel lectures, Pedersen (1988) described the discovery of crown ethers, Cram (1988) and Lehn (1988) the further development of work on new synthetic macrocycles and their host-guest properties. 

Thermodynamics of cation-macrocyclic compound interaction. R. M. Izatt, D. J. Eatough and J. J. Christensen, Struct. Bonding (Berlin), 1973,16,161-189 (53). 

FIGURE 5-14 Structures of some chemical species useful for designing anion-selective electrodes (a) Mn(III) porphyrin (b) vitamin Bi2 derivative (c) tri-n-octyltin chloride (d) lipophilic polyamine macrocyclic compound. 

Macrocyclic compounds, 155 Magnesium, 155 Mass measurements, 52 Mass transport, 4, 5 Mechanism, 33, 36, 40 Mediator, 177, 178 Meldola Blue, 121, 179... 

Trost and coworkers137 have reported the polymer-supported palladium catalyzed cyclization of 1, l-bis(phenylsulfonyl)epoxyalkene 235 which gives cycloalkanes 236 and 237 in a 2 1 ratio (equation 143). This method has proven useful for the synthesis of macrocyclic compounds under neutral conditions without using high dilution technique. Temperature and concentrations are critical. The best results are achieved if a reaction mixture of 0.1-0.5 m is added to a preheated (at 65 °C) suspension of the catalyst. 

At the end of this review, it is interesting to report that even macrocyclic compounds can be obtained imder microwave irradiation. 

Izatt RM, Eatough DJ, Christensen JJ (1973) Thermodynamics of Cation-Macrocyclic Compound Interaction. 16 161-189... 

The present procedure for ring expansion has also been applied to l,2-bis(trimethylsilyloxy)bicyclo[n.l.0]alkanes, which are prepared by cyclopropanation of l,2-bis(silyloxy)cycloalkenes. The latter are readily available from acyloin condensations in the presence of chlorotrimethylsilane. " This reaction provides a new route to cyclic 1,3-diketones and macrocyclic compounds containing two 1,3-diketone units in the ring. 

Vol. 143. Macrocyclic Compounds in Analytical Chemistry. Edited by Yury A. Zolotov... 

Calixarenes, which are macrocyclic compounds, are one of the best building blocks to design molecular hosts in supramolecular chemistry [158]. Synthesis of calix[4]arenes, which have been adamantylated, has been reported [105, 109]. In calix[4]arenes, adamantane or its ester/carboxylic acid derivatives were introduced as substituents (Fig. 29). The purpose of this synthesis was to learn how to employ the flexible chemistry of adamantane in order to construct different kinds of molecular hosts. The X-ray structure analysis of p-(l-adamantyl)thiacalix[4]arene [109] demonstrated that it contained four CHCI3 molecules, one of which was located inside the host molecule cavity, and the host molecule assumed the cone-like conformational shape (Fig. 30). 

Some other types of macrocycle compounds have been synthesized using adamantane and its derivatives. Recently, a new class of cyclobisamides has been synthesized using adamantane derivatives, which shows the general profiles of amino acid (serine or cystine)-ether composites. They were shown to be efficient ion transporters (especially for Na+ ions) in the model membranes [159]. Another interesting family of compounds to which adamantane derivatives have been introduced in order to obtain cyclic frameworks is crown ethers [160]. The outstanding feature of these adamantane-bearing crown ethers (which are also called diamond crowns ) is that ot-amino acids can be incorporated into the adamantano-crown backbone [160]. This family of... 

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