Related Experiment Videos
The Synthesis of a Novel Strained Diyneparacyclophane and Its Dimer by Metal-Mediated Coupling
1Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 (Canada).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|January 29, 2000
Abstract:
Relieve strain with a twist! Synthesis of the paracyclophane 1 and its dimer 2 employed a sequence of metal-mediated couplings. The X-ray analysis of 2 revealed a helical twist inherent in this structure, which created extended arms, that trapped a molecule of solvent. A carboxylic acid derivative of 1 was also prepared, and its structure indicated the diyne rod moiety of 1 is distorted more than in analogous compounds.