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Accessing Valuable Ligand Supports for Transition Metals: A Modified, Intermediate Scale Preparation of 1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclopentadiene
Published on: March 20, 2017
1,2-Bis[5-(9-ethyl-9H-carbazol-3-yl)-2-methyl-thio-phen-3-yl]-3,3,4,4,5,5-hexa-fluoro-cyclo-pentene
Abstract:
The title compound, C(43)H(32)F(6)N(2)S(2), is a new symmetrical photochromic diaryl-ethene derivative with 9-ethyl-carbazol-3-yl substituents. The mol-ecule adopts a photoactive anti-parallel conformation [Irie (2000). Chem. Rev.100, 1685-1716; Kobatake et al. (2002). Chem. Commun. pp. 2804-2805], with a dihedral angle between the mean planes of the two thio-phene rings of 56.23 (6)°. The distance between the two reactive C atoms is 3.497 (3) Å. In the crystal, two mol-ecules are associated through a pair of C-H⋯F inter-molecular hydrogen bonds, forming a centrosymmetric dimer. Dimers are linked by weak π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.8872 (13) Å], forming chains along the c axis.
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