Synfacts 2006(9): 0895-0895  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-942037
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Synthesis of a tris[12]DBA

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Eric L. Dane
T. Yoshimura, A. Inaba, M. Sonoda, K. Tahara, Y. Tobe*, R. V. Williams
Osaka University and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan; University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
23 August 2006 (online)

Significance

Through a pinacol coupling, promoted by an excess of a vanadium salt and zinc, compound 1 was closed to the tricycle 2 on the way to 3, tris(hexadehydrotribenzo[12]annulene). Precursor 1 was also used to synthesize 4 by employing a McMurray coupling.