Helical fused 1,2:8,9-dibenzozethrene oligomers with up to 201° end-to-end twist: "one-pot" synthesis and chiral resolution

• Main Authors: Sun, Zhitao, Fan, Wei, Han, Yi, Yuan, Wei, Ni, Yong, Wang, Jinyi, Wei, Haipeng, Zhao, Yanli, Sun, Zhe, Wu, Jishan
• Other Authors: School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Chiral Resolutions; Cyclooligomerization
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171753
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Twisted polyarenes with persistent chirality are desirable but their synthesis has remained a challenge. In this study, we present a "one-pot" synthesis of 1,2:8,9-dibenzozethrene (DBZ) and its vertically fused dimers and trimers using nickel-catalyzed cyclo-oligomerization reactions. X-ra...