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Songlin Xue1, Nikolay V Tkachenko2, Fan Wu3
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, China.
Abstract:
Aromaticity is one of the most important and widely used concepts in chemistry. Among the various experimentally discovered and theoretically predicted compounds that possess different types of aromaticity, conflicting aromaticity, where aromatic and antiaromatic electron delocalization is present in one molecule simultaneously, remains one of the most controversial and elusive concepts, although theoretically predicted 15 years ago. In this work, we synthesized a novel conflicting aromatic trirhodium complex that contains a σ-aromatic metal fragment surrounded by the π-antiaromatic organic ligand and characterized it by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and X-ray single crystal structure analysis. Experimental characterization and quantum chemical calculations confirm the unique conflicting aromaticity of the synthesized trirhodium molecule. Thus, this novel conflicting aromatic molecule expands the family of aromatic compounds. This discovery will enable researchers to develop and understand the phenomena of conflicting aromaticity in chemistry.
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