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CHEMICAL RECORD
Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages 326-333Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/tcr.20132
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arynes; cycloalkynes; cyclotrimerization; cycloaddition; palladium
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The use of arynes and related species as substrates in metal-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions leads to structurally interesting products. Palladium-catalyzed cyclotrimerization of arynes provides a new method for the synthesis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. For instance, the chemoselective formal [2 + 2 + 2] cocycloaddition of 2,3-triphenylynes with alkynes affords extended triphenylenes, which are good candidates to behave as liquid crystals. Cotrimerization of benzyne and electron-deficient alkenes selectively affords dihydrophenanthrenes or ortho-olefinated biaryls depending on the catalytic system employed. The use of 2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binophythyl (BINAP)-based palladium(0) catalysts in the cocyclotrimerization of 7-methoxynaphthalyne and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate affords an enantiomerically enriched tetrasubstituted pentahelicene, the first example of a metal-catalyzed enantioselective reaction involving arynes. Strained cyclic alkynes can also participate in the palladium-catalyzed cyclotrimerization reactions, which again lead to structurally interesting products. (C) 2007 The Japan Chemical Journal Forum and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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