Issue 14, 2011

Redox-responsive organometallic foldamers from ferrocene amino acid: Solid-phase synthesis, secondary structure and mixed-valence properties

Abstract

Oligoferrocenes Fmoc-Fcan-OMe (n = 3–5) are assembled in a stepwise precise manner from Fmoc-protected ferrocene amino acid Fmoc-Fca-OH (H-Fca-OH = 1-amino-1′-ferrocene carboxylic acid; Fmoc = 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl) via amide bonds on solid supports by sequential Fmoc deprotection, acid activation and coupling steps. The resulting well-defined oligomers form ordered zigzag structures in THF solution with characteristic hydrogen bonding patterns. Electrochemical experiments reveal sequential oxidations of the individual ferrocene units in these peptides giving mixed-valent cations. Optical intervalence electron transfer is detected by intervalence transitions in the near-IR.

Graphical abstract: Redox-responsive organometallic foldamers from ferrocene amino acid: Solid-phase synthesis, secondary structure and mixed-valence properties

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Nov 2010
Accepted
06 Jan 2011
First published
03 Mar 2011

Dalton Trans., 2011,40, 3558-3575

Redox-responsive organometallic foldamers from ferrocene amino acid: Solid-phase synthesis, secondary structure and mixed-valence properties

D. Siebler, C. Förster and K. Heinze, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 3558 DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01528H

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