A Kinetically Stabilized [1.1]Paracyclophane: Isolation and X-Ray Structural Analysis

✍ Scribed by Hidetoshi Kawai; Takanori Suzuki; Masakazu Ohkita; Takashi Tsuji

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19980403)37:6<817::aid-anie817>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

Benzene rings severely bent and closely stacked face-to-face are revealed in the crystal structure of the [1.1]paracyclophane derivative 1, which could be isolated thanks to the kinetic stabilization provided by the steric shielding of the bridgehead sites by the substituents.