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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 142, 期 25, 页码 11084-11091出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03177
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1708210, OCI-1053575]
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NIH [S10OD024998]
- U.S. National Institutes of Health [1S10OD025102-01]
Expanded helicenes are large, structurally flexible pi-frameworks that can be viewed as building blocks for more complex chiral nanocarbons. Here we report a gram-scale synthesis of an alkyne-functionalized expanded [11]helicene and its single-step transformation into two structurally and functionally distinct types of macrocyclic derivatives: (1) a figure-eight dimer via alkyne metathesis (also gram scale) and (2) two arylene-bridged expanded helicenes via Zr-mediated, formal [2+2+n] cycloadditions. The phenylene-bridged helicene displays a substantially higher enantiomerization barrier (22.1 kcal/mol) than its helicene precursor (<11.9 kcal/mol), which makes this a promising strategy to access configurationally stable expanded helicenes. In contrast, the topologically distinct figure-eight retains the configurational lability of the helicene precursor. Despite its lability in solution, this compound forms homochiral single crystals. Here, the configuration is stabilized by an intricate network of two distinct yet interconnected helical superstructures. The enantiomerization mechanisms for all new compounds were probed using density functional theory, providing insight into the flexibility of the figure-eight and guidance for future synthetic modifications in pursuit of non-racemic macrocycles.
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