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Synfacts 2011(5): 0496-0496  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1259803
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Macrocycles from Reductive Zirconocene Coupling: On the Edge of Steric Overload

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Joel Batson
V. H. Gessner, T. D. Tilley*
University of California, Berkeley, USA
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15 April 2011 (online)

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Significance

Here, the authors are able to ­demonstrate the high efficiency of zirconocene-mediated coupling of dialkynes via the synthesis of macrocycles 2 and 3. The orientation of the anthracene units into the plane of the macrocycle leads to the strained architecture. The high utility of this methodology should also lead to its further use in the design of new nanoscopic organic structures.