TY - JOUR
T1 - Guest rotations within a capsuleplex probed by NMR and EPR techniques
AU - Kulasekharan, Revathy
AU - Jayaraj, Nithyanandhan
AU - Porel, Mintu
AU - Choudhury, Rajib
AU - Sundaresan, Arun Kumar
AU - Parthasarathy, Anand
AU - Ottaviani, M. Francesca
AU - Jockusch, Steffen
AU - Turro, N. J.
AU - Ramamurthy, V.
PY - 2010/5/18
Y1 - 2010/5/18
N2 - With the help of 1H NMR and EPR techniques, we have probed the dynamics of guest molecules included within a water-soluble deep cavity cavitand known by the trivial name octa acid. All guest molecules investigated here form 2:1 (host/guest) complexes in water, and two host molecules encapsulate the guest molecule by forming a closed capsule. We have probed the dynamics of the guest molecule within this closed container through 1H NMR and EPR techniques. The timescales offered by these two techniques are quite different, millisecond and nanosecond, respectively. For EPR studies, paramagnetic nitroxide guest molecules and for 1H NMR studies, a wide variety of structurally diverse neutral organic guest molecules were employed. The guest molecules freely rotate along their x axis (long molecular axis and magnetic axis) on the NMR timescale; however, their rotation is slowed with respect to that in water on the EPR timescale. Rotation along the x axis is dependent on the length of the alkyl chain attached to the nitroxide probe. Overall rotation along the y or z axis was very much dependent on the structure of the guest molecule. The guests investigated could be classified into three groups: (a) those that do not rotate along the y or z axis both at room and elevated (55 °C) temperatures, (b) those that rotate freely at room temperature, and (c) those that do not rotate at room temperature but do so at higher temperatures. One should note that rotation here refers to the NMR timescale and it is quite possible that all molecules may rotate at much longer timescales than the one probed here. A slight variation in structure alters the rotational mobility of the guest molecules.
AB - With the help of 1H NMR and EPR techniques, we have probed the dynamics of guest molecules included within a water-soluble deep cavity cavitand known by the trivial name octa acid. All guest molecules investigated here form 2:1 (host/guest) complexes in water, and two host molecules encapsulate the guest molecule by forming a closed capsule. We have probed the dynamics of the guest molecule within this closed container through 1H NMR and EPR techniques. The timescales offered by these two techniques are quite different, millisecond and nanosecond, respectively. For EPR studies, paramagnetic nitroxide guest molecules and for 1H NMR studies, a wide variety of structurally diverse neutral organic guest molecules were employed. The guest molecules freely rotate along their x axis (long molecular axis and magnetic axis) on the NMR timescale; however, their rotation is slowed with respect to that in water on the EPR timescale. Rotation along the x axis is dependent on the length of the alkyl chain attached to the nitroxide probe. Overall rotation along the y or z axis was very much dependent on the structure of the guest molecule. The guests investigated could be classified into three groups: (a) those that do not rotate along the y or z axis both at room and elevated (55 °C) temperatures, (b) those that rotate freely at room temperature, and (c) those that do not rotate at room temperature but do so at higher temperatures. One should note that rotation here refers to the NMR timescale and it is quite possible that all molecules may rotate at much longer timescales than the one probed here. A slight variation in structure alters the rotational mobility of the guest molecules.
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U2 - 10.1021/la904196g
DO - 10.1021/la904196g
M3 - Article
C2 - 20055365
AN - SCOPUS:77952387359
VL - 26
SP - 6943
EP - 6953
JO - Langmuir
JF - Langmuir
SN - 0743-7463
IS - 10
ER -