文摘
A phenanthroline-based macrocycle 1 has been newly developed which has two chemically equivalent metal chelating sites within the spatially restricted cavity for dinuclear metal arrangement. The macrocycle 1 reacts with Zn(CF3CO2)2 or ZnCl2 to form homodinuclear Zn(II)-complexes. A single-crystal X-ray structural analysis of the resulting Zn21(CF3CO2)4 determined the complex structure in which two Zn(II) ions are bound by two phenanthroline sites and two CF3CO2鈥?/sup> ions bind to each Zn(II) ion in a tetrahedral geometry. Similarly, a homodinuclear Cu(I)-macrocycle was formed from 1 and Cu(CH3CN)4BF4. Notably, from 1 and an equimolar mixture of Cu(CH3CN)4BF4 and Zn(CF3CO2)2, a heterodinuclear Cu(I)鈥揨n(II)-macrocycle was exclusively formed in high yield (>90%) because of the relatively low stability of the dinuclear Cu(I)-macrocycle. A heterodinuclear Ag(I)鈥揨n(II)-macrocycle was similarly formed with fairly high selectivity from a mixture of Ag(I) and Zn(II) ions. Such selective heterodinuclear metal arrangement was not observed with other combinations of M-Zn(II) (M = Li(I), Mg(II), Pd(II), Hg(II), La(III), and Tb(III)).