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Benzidine/Quinoidal-Benzidine-Linked, Superbenzene-Based π-Conjugated Chiral Macrocycles and Cyclophanes.

Guangwu LiTaisuke MatsunoYi HanHoa PhanShaofei WuQing JiangYa ZouHiroyuki IsobeJishan Wu
Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2020)
Synthesis of fully conjugated cyclophanes containing large-size polycyclic aromatics is challenging. Now, three benzidine-linked, hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (superbenzene)-based ortho-, para-, and meta-cyclophanes are synthesized through intermolecular Yamamoto coupling reaction of structurally pre-organized precursors. Subsequent oxidative dehydrogenation gave the corresponding quinoidal benzidine-linked cyclophanes. Their geometries were confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis and their electronic properties were investigated by electronic absorption, cyclic voltammetry, and DFT calculations. The quinoidal benzidine-linked cyclophanes show thermally populated paramagnetic activity with a relatively large singlet-triplet energy gap. Two enantiomers for the ortho-cyclophanes (1-NH and 1-N) were isolated and their chiral figure-of-eight macrocyclic structures were identified. The cage-like cyclophanes 2-NH and 3-NH with concave surface can selectively encapsulate fullerene C70 .
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