Sulfolenocorrole as a Chameleon-Like Tecton Enabling the Construction of Multiring Fused Corroles
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Preparation of a Corannulene-functionalized Hexahelicene by Copper(I)-catalyzed Alkyne-azide Cycloaddition of Nonplanar Polyaromatic Units
Published on: September 18, 2016
Mengyi Hu1, Zhaowen Ye1, Junyang Wang1
1Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry, Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Meilong 130, Shanghai200237, China.
Abstract:
In addition to β,β-fusions based on the Diels-Alder reaction of sulfolenocorrole, meso,β-fusion has been realized, enabling the synthesis of multiring fused corroles (CuF3x). The obtained unique conjugation systems afford intense π-stacking and pronounced bathochromic absorption with a broad peak around 1280 nm. Upon theoretical calculations and NMR analysis, the multifusions suppress the noninnocent feature of the corrole ligand; meanwhile, CuF3x and HF3M are proposed to be weakly antiaromatic and nonaromatic, respectively.
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