Synthesis of Silicon and Germanium-Containing Heterosumanenes via Rhodium-Catalyzed Cyclodehydrogenation of Silicon/Germanium-Hydrogen and Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds

Dandan Zhou; Ya Gao; Bingxin Liu; Qitao Tan; Bin Xu

doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02254

Synthesis of Silicon and Germanium-Containing Heterosumanenes via Rhodium-Catalyzed Cyclodehydrogenation of Silicon/Germanium-Hydrogen and Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds

Org Lett. 2017 Sep 1;19(17):4628-4631. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02254. Epub 2017 Aug 23.

Authors

Dandan Zhou¹, Ya Gao¹, Bingxin Liu¹, Qitao Tan¹, Bin Xu^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Innovative Drug Research Center, Shanghai University , Shanghai 200444, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200032, China.
³ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University , Shanghai 200062, China.

PMID: 28832161
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02254

Abstract

A three-step synthesis of C₃-symmetric trisilasumanene and trigermasumanene, heteroanalogues of the π-bowl sumanene, was achieved using a threefold rhodium-catalyzed cyclodehydrogenation of Si/Ge-H and C-H bonds as the key step. Trigermasumanene was proven to adopt a planar geometry by single crystal X-ray diffraction for the first time. The optical properties were also investigated by UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't