Extreme complementarity in a macrocycle-tweezer complexColquhoun, H.M., Zhu, Z. and Williams, D.J. (2003) Extreme complementarity in a macrocycle-tweezer complex. Organic Letters, 5 (23). pp. 4353-4356. ISSN 1523-7060 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1021/ol035626j Abstract/SummaryInteraction of a novel pyrene-based tweezer molecule with a macrocyclic ether-imide-sulfone results in formation of a strongly bound complex (K-a = 24 000 M-1) in which binding results not only from pi-pi stacking interactions involving pyrene units as donors and macrocyclic naphthalene-tetracarboximide and biphenylenedisulfone groups as acceptors but also from N-(HO)-O-... and C-(HO)-O-... hydrogen bonds and from "reverse" pi-stacking of the electron-poor isophthaloyl residue of the tweezer with an electron-rich 3-aminophenoxy residue of the macrocyclic imide.
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