Macrocyclic bis(phenanthroline-pyrrole): a convenient one-pot synthesis, structure(s), spectroscopic, and redox properties, and the binding of amine guests, protons, and lanthanide ions.

This paper reports a convenient, one-pot, easily scalable and readily modifiable synthesis of a novel large-ring bis(1,10-phenanthrolinyl-2,5-pyrrole) macrocycle, H2LMC, and describes its spectroscopic and electrochemical properties, protonation, cooperative amine binding, electrocatalysis of the oxidation of primary amines, photosensitization of the decomposition of dichloromethane, and the first lanthanide complexes of the hexaaza-dianion LMC(2-) including the novel dimer, [(NO3)(LMC)Eu(μ-OH)Eu(LMC )(H2 O)2]·2py.