Taming Molecular Folding: Anion-Templated Foldamers with Tunable Quaternary Structures

  • Eric A. John
  • , Asia Marie S. Riel
  • , Lianne H.E. Wieske
  • , Debmalya Ray
  • , Daniel A. Decato
  • , Madeleine Boller
  • , Zoltan Takacs
  • , Máté Erdélyi
  • , Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev
  • , Orion B. Berryman

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Abstract

Higher-order foldamers represent a unique class of supramolecules at the forefront of molecular design. Herein we control quaternary folding using a novel approach that combines halogen bonding (XBing) and hydrogen bonding (HBing). We present the first anion-templated double helices induced by halogen bonds (XBs) and stabilized by “hydrogen bond enhanced halogen bonds” (HBeXBs). Our findings demonstrate that the number and orientation of hydrogen bond (HB) and XB donors significantly affect the quaternary structure and guest selectivity of two similar oligomers. This research offers new design elements to engineer foldamers and tailor their quaternary structure for specific guest binding.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16419-16427
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume146
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 19 2024

Funding

The contents of this manuscript have been adapted with permission from a doctoral dissertation. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) CHE-2004213, the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics CoBRE (NIH NIGMS grant P30GM140963). The X-ray crystallographic data were collected using a Bruker D8 Venture, principally supported by NSF MRI CHE-1337908. The work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division. This research used resources of the Compute and Data Environment for Science (CADES) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which are supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 and No. DEAC02-05CH11231, respectively.

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