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Synfacts 2015; 11(10): 1043
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1560293
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Hand Specific Rings

Contributor(s):
Timothy M. Swager
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Maggie He
Ball M, Fowler B, Li P, Joyce LA, Li F, Liu T, Paley D, Zhong Y, Li H, * Xiao S, * Ng F, * Steigerwald ML, * Nuckolls C. * Shanghai Normal University, P. R. of China; Columbia University, New York and Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, USA
Chiral Conjugated Corrals.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015;
137: 9982-9987
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Publication Date:
18 September 2015 (online)

 
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Key words

conjugated macrocycles - bithiophenes - perylene diimide - interconversion

Significance

The first conjugated macrocycle containing alternating aromatic subunits –A–B–A–B– pattern was synthesized and studied in detail. Here, the diphenyl perlyene diimides serve as electron donors and the bithiophenes serve as electron acceptors. The new macrocycle has interesting structures and exists in dynamic equilibrium between the chiral and achiral forms. The unique electronic structure gives rise to an absorption spanning the entire visible light spectrum.


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Comment

The three isomers (two enantiomers and one meso isomer) of macrocycle CC1 were isolated by HPLC on a chiral column. Enantiomers (R,R)-CC1 and (S,S)-CC1 interconvert at room temperature through the intermediacy of the meso isomer (S,R)-CC1. Due to the branched undecyl side chains and the molecular dynamics, crystals of CC1 could not be obtained. DFT calculations showed that the frontier orbitals participate in intramolecular charge transfer.


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