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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 55, Issue 50, Pages 15594-15598Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201607740
Keywords
aromaticity; ovalenes; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; triptycene; X-ray diffraction
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Contorted two-dimensional aromatic molecules are fascinating synthetic targets because they are molecular cutouts of nonplanar graphene structures, fullerenes, or carbon nanotubes. In most cases, the curvature is introduced by the implementation of either five-, seven-, or eight-membered rings into the fused aromatic plane. Curvature can also be generated for two-dimensional systems consisting of six-membered rings exclusively, by the introduction of cove or fjord regions. The synthesis of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) that contains two peripheral triptycene units and six tert-butyl substituents is described. As a result of steric repulsion, the structure is highly contorted with two phenylene blades of the peripheral triptycene units oriented almost coplanar with respect to each other at a distance of 16 angstrom, as has been verified by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The conformation is stable in solution even at a temperature of 150 degrees C. Additionally, internal tert-butyl groups could be selectively removed, allowing a UV/Vis-spectroscopic comparison of two structures with the same p-system, but different degrees of contortion.
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