meso-Triaryl-Substituted Smaragdyrins: Facile Aromaticity Switching

Autor: Atsuhiro Osuka, Mingbo Zhou, Naoki Aratani, Yutao Rao, Gakhyun Kim, Qingyun Liu, Daguan Xie, Jianxin Song, Dongho Kim, Bangshao Yin, Ling Xu, Takayuki Tanaka, Shubin Liu, Donghai Yu, Yang Liu
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(48)
ISSN: 1520-5126
Popis: All-aza smaragdyrin, a historic but elusive pentapyrrolic macrocycle, was successfully synthesized and characterized for the first time. [22]Smaragdyrin BF2-complex 3 was smoothly synthesized by 2-fold SNAr reaction of 1,9-dibromo-5-mesityldipyrrin with 5,10-dimesityltripyrrane. Treatment of 3 with methanesulfonic acid gave [20]smaragdyrin 5 as a stable antiaromatic compound. Reduction of 5 with NaBH4 under inert conditions gave [22]smaragdyrin 6 as an aromatic congener, which was easily oxidized back to 5 in the air. Complex 3 was interconvertible with its 20π-congener 4 via oxidation with MnO2 and reduction with NaBH4. Treatment of 3 or 4 with CuCl2 in the presence of NaOAc gave hetero bimetal complex 8.
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