Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.136, No.19, 6916-6919, 2014
Ammonia-Driven Chirality Inversion and Enhancement in Enantiodifferentiating Photocyclodimerization of 2-Anthracenecarboxylate Mediated by Diguanidino-gamma-cyclodextrin
In the supramolecular photocyclodimerization of 2-anthracenecarboxylate mediated by 6(A),6(D)-diguanidino-gamma-cyclodextrin (CD), the chiral sense and enantiomeric excess of the photoproduct were dynamic functions of temperature and cosolvent to afford the (M)-anti head-to-head cyclodimer in 64% ee in aqueous methanol at -70 degrees C but the antipodal (P)-isomer in 86% ee in aqueous ammonia at -85 degrees C, while the corresponding diamino-gamma-CD host did not show such unusual photochirogenic behaviors. The ee landscape was very steep against the temperature and sign-inverted against the ammonia content to reveal the opposite temperature dependence at low and high ammonia contents, for which an altered solvent structure and/or guanidinium carboxylate interaction mode would be responsible.