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Carbon Dioxide and Supramolecular Chemistry<br />

Dmitry M. Rudkevich<br />

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX<br />

76019-0065, USA<br />

Carbon <strong>di</strong>oxide (CO2) is the major greenhouse gas. It constantly circulates in the environment<br />

through a variety of processes known as the carbon cycle. Extensive CO2 circulation in the<br />

atmosphere, industry and agriculture requires not only its systematic monitoring under a variety<br />

of con<strong>di</strong>tions, but more importantly, necessitates the development of improved methods of the<br />

CO2 fixation and chemical utilization. We employ methods and techniques of supramolecular<br />

chemistry for these purposes. In particular, we explore the dynamic covalent chemistry between<br />

CO2 and primary amines. [1]<br />

Our progress will be highlighted in the following <strong>di</strong>rections:<br />

1. Switchable supramolecular polymers and peptide-based nanoscale architectures from<br />

CO2 and their further functionalization. [2,3]<br />

2. Reversibly formed carbamate materials for selective entrapment, separation and storage<br />

of guest ions and molecules of biological and industrial interest. [4,5]<br />

3. Supramolecular sensors for CO2 and its toxic derivatives. [6,7]<br />

[1] D. M. Rudkevich and H. Xu, Chem. Commun., 2005, 2651-2659 (review).<br />

[2] V. Stastny, A. Anderson and D. M. Rudkevich, J. Org. Chem., 2006, 71, 8696-8705.<br />

[3] H. Xu and D. M. Rudkevich, Chem. Eur. J., 2004, 10, 5432-5442.<br />

[4] V. Stastny and D. M. Rudkevich, J. Am. Chem. Soc., <strong>2007</strong>, 129, 1018-1019.<br />

[5] H. Xu and D. M. Rudkevich, Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 3223-3226.<br />

[6] E. M. Hampe and D. M. Rudkevich, Tetrahedron, 2003, 59, 9619-9625.<br />

[7] H. Zhang and D. M. Rudkevich, Chem. Commun., <strong>2007</strong>, 1238-1239.<br />

IL 1<br />

Mechanistic Aspects of Threa<strong>di</strong>ng of Polymers in Processive Rotaxane<br />

Catalysts<br />

Ruud G.E. Coumans, Pilar Hidalgo Ramos, Alexander B.C. Deutman,<br />

Johannes A.A.W. Elemans, Roeland J.M. Nolte, Alan E. Rowan<br />

Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED<br />

Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Email: A.Rowan@science.ru.nl<br />

IL 2<br />

Natural processive enzymes, such as -exonuclease or DNA polymerase III, operate by<br />

threa<strong>di</strong>ng a DNA strand in a pseudo-rotaxane topology and subsequently slide along the chain<br />

performing several rounds of catalysis before they <strong>di</strong>ssociate. 1 These highly efficient<br />

biocatalysts have inspired us to develop the first example of a synthetic processive rotaxane<br />

catalyst: 2 manganese porphyrin-containing macrocycle was threaded onto a polybuta<strong>di</strong>ene<br />

strand and mimicked the catalytic action of a natural processive enzyme by catalyzing the<br />

epoxidation of the double bonds of the polymer while sli<strong>di</strong>ng along its chain.<br />

In order to investigate this threa<strong>di</strong>ng in more detail a series mono functionalized polymers<br />

was synthesized which contain a blocking N,N’-<strong>di</strong>alkyl-4,4’-bipyri<strong>di</strong>nium trap at one side of the<br />

polymer chain and an open end at the other side. 3 The macrocycles are unable to slip over the<br />

blocking group and therefore they have to traverse the whole polymer chain before they reach<br />

the bipyri<strong>di</strong>ne trap which quenches the fluorescence of the macrocycle. Fluorescence emission<br />

stu<strong>di</strong>es revealed that the kinetics of threa<strong>di</strong>ng followed a second order process and that the rate<br />

of threa<strong>di</strong>ng was found to dependent on the polymer length with a length-dependent barrier of<br />

61 J/nm which increase to 93 J/nm when a larger more flexible macrocycle was used.<br />

The thermodynamics of threa<strong>di</strong>ng revealed that for all polymers H ‡ on was positive and<br />

S ‡ on strongly negative with the absolute value of S ‡ on increasing with polymer length. These<br />

results are supportive of the nucleation mechanism proposed by Muthukumar, 4 resembling the<br />

transportation of DNA through the opening in a virus particle.<br />

These stu<strong>di</strong>es have provided <strong>di</strong>rect evidence that macrocyclic compounds can rea<strong>di</strong>ly thread<br />

onto polymeric chains and slide along. The time needed to reach the blocked end of the<br />

polymer is related to polymer length, and the rate-limiting step involves a barrier of entropic<br />

origin in which a certain part of the open end of the polymer has to stretch and unfold. Recent<br />

stu<strong>di</strong>es describing how this threa<strong>di</strong>ng rate can be controlled using a metallated porphyrincontaining<br />

macrocycle, will also be <strong>di</strong>scussed. 5<br />

[1]. Wang, J.; Sattar, A.; Wang, C. C.; Karam, J. D.; Konigsberg, W. H.; Steitz, T. A. Cell 1997,<br />

89, 1087.<br />

[2]. Thordarson, P.; Bijsterveld, E. J. A.; Rowan, A. E.; Nolte, R. J. M. Nature 2003, 424, 915.<br />

[3]. Coumans, R. G. E.; Elemans, J. A. A. W.; Nolte, R. J. M.; Rowan, A. E. Proc. Natl. Acad.<br />

Sci. U.S.A. 2006, 103, 19647.<br />

[4]. Muthukumar, M. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2001, 82, 3188.<br />

[5]. Hidalgo Ramos, P.; Coumans, R. G. E.; Deutman, A. B. C.; Smits, J. M. M.; de Gelder, R.;<br />

Elemans, J. A. A. W.; Nolte, R. J. M.; Rowan, A. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. <strong>2007</strong>, 129(17) 5699.

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