Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202112589
Keywords
azahelicene; bowl chirality; corannulene; dynamic conformational change; helical chirality
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP20K05463, JP21H05480]
- ENEOS Tonengeneral Research/Development Encouragement Foundation
- Kondo Memorial Foundation
- JSPS
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Peripherally pi-extended corannulenes with quintuple azahelicene units were prepared and their dynamic behaviors were studied. Analysis revealed that the structural isomers can interchange in solution, depending on steric congestion, and the co-existing moieties influence the conformational dynamics, reducing activation energy barriers for isomerization.
Peripherally pi-extended corannulenes bearing quintuple azahelicene units, 10 and 11, were prepared and their dynamic behaviors were studied experimentally and theoretically. The fused corannulenes were synthesized from sym-pentabromocorannulene in three steps. X-Ray diffraction analysis for 10 displayed a conformer possessing a P(M) bowl chirality and a PPMPM (PMPMM) helical chirality, which was found to be the most stable conformer(s). Variable-temperature NMR measurements of 10 and 11 revealed that their structural isomers can be interconvertible in solution, depending on the steric congestion around the helical scaffolds. Automated search for conformers in the equilibrium and transition states by Artificial Force Induced Reaction (AFIR) method revealed their interconversion networks, including bowl-inversion and helical-inversion. This analysis indicated that the co-existing corannulene and azahelicene moieties influence the conformational dynamics, which leads to mitigation of the activation energy barriers for isomerization.
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