Supporting Information A Dipyrenyl Calixazacrown Chemosensor for Mg2+ Abdelwaheb Hamdi,*,† Sang Hoon Kim,§ Rym Abidi,† Pierre Thuéry,Ϯ Jong Seung Kim,*,§ and Jacques Vicens*,# † Laboratoire d’Application de la Chimie aux Ressources et Substances Naturelles et à l’Environnement (LACReSNE) , Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Tunis §Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea Ϯ CEA, IRAMIS, SCM, LCCEf, CNRS URA 331, Bât. 125, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France # IPHC-ULP-ECPM-CNRS URA 7178, 25 rue Becquerel, F-67087, Strasbourg Cédex, France hamdi_chimie@yahoo.fr;jongskim@korea.ac.kr;vicens@chimie.u-strasbg.fr Contents General Experimental Methods. Page 2 Figure S1. 1H NMR spectrum of 5 Page 3 Figure S2. 1H NMR spectrum of 3 Page 4 Figure S3. 1H NMR spectrum of 4 Page 5 Figure S4. MALDI TOF spectrum of 5 Page 6 Figure S5. MALDI TOF spectrum of 3 Page 7 Figure S6. MALDI TOF spectrum of 4 Page 8 Figure S7. ORTEP View of 5·4CH3OH. Page 9 Figure S8. Job’s plot of complexation of 4 and Mg2+ Page 10 Figure S9. 1H NMR spectrum of 4 in CDCl3 Page 11 Figure S10. 1H NMR spectrum of 4-Mg2+ in CD3CN Page 12 Figure S11. MALDI TOF spectrum of 4-Mg2+ in CD3CN Page 13 1 General Experimental Methods. All reagents and solvents for synthesis were commercial and used without further purification. All the reactions were performed under a nitrogen atmosphere. TLCs were carried out on Silica gel 60 F254 (Merck 1.05554.0001). SiO2 (Geduran 1.11567) was used for column chromatography. 1H NMR spectra were recorded at 293 K, unless otherwise stated, using a 300 MHz Bruker SY 200 or a 400 MHz Varian Unity Plus Spectrometer. Shifts are referenced relative to the internal reference standard, tetramethylsilane (TMS). Coupling constants J are given in Hz. MALDI TOF mass spectra were measured on a Biflex Bruker. Melting points were measured using an electrothermal Mel-temp® melting point apparatus and are reported uncorrected. Elemental analyses were carried out at the Service de Microanalyse de l’ULP à Strasbourg. Dimethylester p-tertbutylcalix[4]arene (6)20 and N-(1-pyrenemethyl) chloroacetamide (7)21 were prepared according to literature. 2 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 Figure S1. 1H NMR spectrum of 5 3 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 Figure S2. 1H NMR spectrum of 3 4 21.9 4.0 4.1 2.0 3.4 6.0 7.9 8.0 12.0 18.9 19.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 Figure S3. 1H NMR spectrum of 4 5 Figure S4. MALDI TOF spectrum of 5 6 Figure S5. MALDI TOF spectrum of 3 7 Figure S6. MALDI TOF spectrum of 4 8 X-ray Structure of 5·4CH3OH Figure S7. ORTEP View of 5·4CH3OH. The carbon-bound hydrogen atoms are omitted. Hydrogen bonds are shown as dashed lines. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level Description of the crystal feature. The molecule of 5 is devoid of any symmetry element. The four aromatic rings make dihedral angles of 71.39(6), 51.79(7), 74.33(7) and 51.35(6)° with the mean plane defined by the four methylenic carbon atoms of the calixarene (rms deviation 0.035 Å). The rings bearing the crown are more tilted than the others, as usual in such compounds.21b Two intramolecular hydrogen bonds link the phenolic groups (O3 and O6) to the neighbouring, crown-bearing oxygen atoms O1 and O4, while two other hydrogen bonds connect two amine groups (N1 and N4) to the phenolic oxygen atoms O3 and O6. Such intramolecular hydrogen bonding has been observed in other calixazacrowns.21b The bonds between the two amines and the phenolic groups result in a buckling of the azacrown, with the central part of the chain being roughly perpendicular to the O1–O4 line. Three intermolecular hydrogen bonds are also formed, between three methanol solvent molecules and the carbonyl atoms O2 and O5 and the nitrogen atom N3, while the fourth methanol molecule is included in the cavity of 5. 9 [4] / [4] + [Mg2+] Figure S8. Job’s plot of a 1:1 complex between 4 and Mg2+ion, where the difference in fluorescence intensity at 395 nm was plotted against the mole fraction of 4 at an invariant total concentration of 5 μM in CH3CN 10 PPM 9.0 8.0 7.0 file: C:\Documents and Settings\USER\ 바 탕 화 면 \NMR\sangdipyreneOnly.fid\fid block# 1 expt: "s2pul" transmitter freq.: 300.177924 MHz time domain size: 17984 points width: 4500.45 Hz = 14.992608 ppm = 0.250247 Hz/pt number of scans: 40 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 36.12 7.789 12.19 8.052 4.018 5.936 1.887 5.999 2.128 8.315 STANDARD 1H OBSERVE 7.874 SpinWorks 2.5: 2.0 1.0 0.0 freq. of 0 ppm: 300.176449 MHz processed size: 32768 complex points LB: 0.000 GB: 0.0000 Figure S9. 1H NMR spectrum of 4 in CD3CN 11 8.0 7.0 file: C:\Documents and Settings\USER\ 바 탕 화 면 \NMR\sangdipyreneMgOnly.fid\fid block# 1 expt: "s2pul" transmitter freq.: 300.177924 MHz time domain size: 17984 points width: 4500.45 Hz = 14.992608 ppm = 0.250247 Hz/pt number of scans: 40 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 37.81 3.985 3.807 2.327 3.804 1.931 1.860 4.318 4.359 3.878 9.0 2.009 PPM 18.01 STANDARD 1H OBSERVE 7.858 SpinWorks 2.5: 2.0 1.0 0.0 freq. of 0 ppm: 300.176448 MHz processed size: 32768 complex points LB: 0.000 GB: 0.0000 Figure S10. 1H NMR spectrum of 4-Mg2+ in CD3CN 12 Figure S11. MALDI TOF spectrum of 4-Mg2+ in CD3CN 13