Responsive Anionophores with AND Logic Multi-Stimuli Activation.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 63(22): e202403314, 2024 05 27.
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Artificial ion transport systems have emerged as an important class of compounds that promise applications in chemotherapeutics as anticancer agents or to treat channelopathies. Stimulus-responsive systems that offer spatiotemporally controlled activity for targeted applications remain rare. Here we utilize dynamic hydrogen bonding interactions of a 4,6-dihydroxy-isophthalamide core to generate a modular platform enabling access to stimuli-responsive ion transporters that can be activated in response to a wide variety of external stimuli, including light, redox, and enzymes, with excellent OFF-ON activation profiles. Alkylation of the two free hydroxyl groups with stimulus-responsive moieties locks the amide bonds through intramolecular hydrogen bonding and hence makes them unavailable for anion binding and transport. Triggering using a particular stimulus to cleave both cages reverses the hydrogen bonding arrangement, to generate a highly preorganized anion binding cavity for efficient transmembrane transport. Integration of two cages that are responsive to orthogonal stimuli enables multi-stimuli activation, where both stimuli are required to trigger transport in an AND logic process. Importantly, the strategy provides a facile method to post-functionalize the highly active transporter core with a variety of stimulus-responsive moieties for targeted activation with multiple triggers.
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