Synthesis 2019; 51(10): 2116-2121
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1612122
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Synthesis and Characterization of Enantiopure Tribenzotriquinacene Dimers Bearing a Platinum-Diacetylene Unit

Authors

  • Wen-Rong Xu*

    a   Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Tropical Island Resources of Ministry of Education and College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, P. R. of China   Email: xuwr2016@hainu.edu.cn
  • Xin-Rui Wang

    a   Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Tropical Island Resources of Ministry of Education and College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, P. R. of China   Email: xuwr2016@hainu.edu.cn
  • Hak-Fun Chow

    b   Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry and The Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR
  • Dietmar Kuck

    c   Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Materials (CM2), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany

We are grateful for the financial support of this work by Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (Grant No. 217008) and Hainan University (Scientific Research Start-up Foundation, Grant No. kyqd1635)­.
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Publication History

Received: 28 October 2018

Accepted after revision: 08 January 2019

Publication Date:
19 February 2019 (online)


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Abstract

A pair of enantiomerically pure metallodimers containing two deeply concave tribenzotriquinacene (TBTQ) units linked by a platinum-diacetylene unit were synthesized. Such linear metal-centered TBTQ dimers are considered as edges of metallosquares and metallocubes that bear four or eight mutually syn-oriented TBTQ bowls at their tips, respectively. The structures of the metallodimers were characterized by 1H, 13C and 31P NMR spectroscopy, ESI mass spectrometry, and circular dichroism. The single X-ray crystal structure of (+)-enantiomer confirmed the absolute configuration of the metallodimers and revealed an edge (tip-to-tip) length of 18.456 Å and an approximated syn-orientation of the two TBTQ bowls in the solid state.

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