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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 143, Issue 7, Pages 2716-2721Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c00409
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- NRF Investigatorship [NRF-NRFI05-2019-0005]
- MOE Tier 2 grant [MOE2018-T2-2-094]
- Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab
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A facile synthesis method for nitrogen-doped carbon nanobelts was reported, in which eight-membered rings release strain while maintaining weak pi-conjugation. The method opens opportunities to access more sophisticated p-conjugated 2D/3D belt-/cage-like molecules in a simple way.
Synthesis of fully conjugated carbon nanobelts (CNBs) remains one of the biggest challenges in organic chemistry. Herein, we report a facile synthesis of four nitrogen-doped [(6.)(m)8](n)cyclacene CNBs (m = 1-3; n = 3,4) with different sizes by a one-pot self-condensation reaction of three bis(o-aminobenzophenone) precursors. The belt-shaped structure was confirmed by Xray crystallographic analysis. The existence of eight-membered [1,5]diazocine rings releases the strain while maintaining weak pi-conjugation throughout the belt backbone, which is supported by electronic absorption spectra and frontier molecular orbital analysis. NMR measurements and magnetic shielding calculations suggest an alternating aromatic-nonaromatic ring structure, with a slightly more shielded chemical environment in the cavity. Our method opens the opportunities to access more sophisticated pconjugated 2D/3D belt-/cage-like molecules in a simple way.
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