Журнал "Макрогетероциклы"

^aG.A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 153045 Ivanovo, Russia

^bIvanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, 153000 Ivanovo, Russia

^@Corresponding author E-mail: vbs@isc-ras.ru

 

DOI: 10.6060/mhc181109s

Macroheterocycles 2018 11(4) 363-370

 

Diprotonation equilibriaof inverted platform of tetraanionic 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4′-sulfophenyl)-2-aza-21-carbaporphyrin, H₂IP(PhSO₃H)₄, with perchloric acid in water was studied using DFT/B3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) and spectropotentiometric titration methods. In aqueous solution this porphyrinoid exists in the form of NH tautomer H₂I_(i)P(PhSO₃^-)₄ with an inverted pyrrolenine ring, which is stabilized by bifurcated intramolecular hydrogen bonds between two pyrrole hydrogens and one pyrrolenine nitrogen. Intramolecular hydrogen bonds protect intramolecular hydrogen-bonding sites from intermolecular interactions. For this reason, the external nitrogen atom is protonated first, and then the internal one is protonated. The second proton switches the intramolecular hydrogen bonds to intermolecular hydrogen bonds. Diprotonated platform H₄IP²⁺(PhSO₃^-)₄ has the geometry of elastic 1,3-alternate, which is a molecular and anionic receptor. The equilibrium of the second stage protonation in water is completely shifted to the aquacomplex [H₄IP²⁺(PhSO₃^-)₄](H₂O)₂, which is formed due to the hydrogen and electrostatic binding of the solvent molecules on both receptor sites. Aquacomplex [H₄IP⁺⁺(PhSO₃^-)₄](H₂O)₂ is a monomer of linear J-aggregates self-assembly. The driving force of J-aggregates assembly is the formation of stronger anionic complexes as a result of water molecules intermolecular replacement by sulfonate groups of monomers.