dc.contributor.author	Bryant, William Stephen	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Gibson, Harry W.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Tanko, James M.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	McGrath, James E.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Merola, Joseph S.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Marand, Hervé L.	en
dc.contributor.department	Chemistry	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-06-09T18:30:39Z	en
dc.date.adate	1999-09-09	en
dc.date.available	2017-06-09T18:30:39Z	en
dc.date.issued	1999-08-06	en
dc.date.rdate	2012-05-08	en
dc.date.sdate	1999-08-19	en
dc.description.abstract	The focus of the following research was to use the self-assembly process to create rotaxanes between several large bisphenylene crown ethers (> 22 atoms) with secondary ammonium salts. Also of great interest was to understand the complexation behavior of the crown ethers with the salts, with emphasis on determining the stoichiometries and association constants of the complexations in solution using NMR spectroscopy. The stoichiometry of the complexes was determined by the mole ratio method and the association constants were calculated graphically. Bis-(m-phenylene)-26-crown-8 did not form a complex in solution with several secondary ammonium salts even though the cavity size is large enough to allow the formation of pseudorotaxanes. However, the larger crown ether, bis-(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10 (BMP32C10), did form a complex. The complex stoichiometry varied between 1:1 (crown:salt) in solution and 1:2 in the solid state as evidenced by NMR and X-ray crystallography, respectively. The solid state complexes were pseudorotaxanes. Also, an interesting "exo" complex was formed in the solid state between BMP32C10 and a secondary diammonium salt. The major binding force for the complexes in the X-ray structures was hydrogen bonding. Weaker secondary stabilization was achieved via aryl-aryl aromatic interactions. The difference between the stoichiometries in the two phases and the observance of an "exo" complex demonstrates that one must be careful in describing the complexes in each phase. Also investigated was the complexation formed between dibenzo-24-crown-8 (DB24C8) and secondary diammonium salts. The association constants for the complexes were found to be relatively higher. Due to the weaker association constants and the different stoichiometries of complexation the meta-susbtituted bisphenylene crown ethers were not recommended for the formation of larger complexes, i.e. polyrotaxanes. However, it is suggested that the DB24C8 moiety be used in components of supramolecular assemblies. The functionalization of poly(propylene imine) dendrimers with two different crown ethers as peripheral moieties was attempted. The 1st, 3rd, and 5th generation poly(propylene imine) dendrimers were functionalized with 1,3-phenylene-16-crown-5 moieties by reacting the surface primary amines with the corresponding succinimide ester of the crown ether. The larger DB24C8 succinimide ester was not as reactive and full functionalization was not achieved.	en
dc.description.degree	Ph. D.	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-081999-114618	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-081999-114618/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77980	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Self-Assembly	en
dc.subject	Rotaxanes	en
dc.subject	Stability Constants	en
dc.subject	Cryptands	en
dc.subject	Crown Ethers	en
dc.title	Self-Assembly: Synthesis and Complexation of Crown Ethers and Cryptands with R2-NH2 Ions	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Chemistry	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en

Self-Assembly: Synthesis and Complexation of Crown Ethers and Cryptands with R2-NH2 Ions

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