Arylene–ethynylene macrocycles: Privileged shape-persistent building blocks for organic materials

✍ Scribed by Gross, Dustin E.; Zang, Ling; Moore, Jeffrey S.

• Book ID: 120454443
• Publisher: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 998 KB
• Volume: 84
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-4545
• DOI: 10.1351/PAC-CON-11-09-15

✦ Synopsis

This report details the advances in synthetic strategies toward arylene–ethynylene macrocycles (AEMs). After a brief description of traditional methods, we summarize recent advances based on dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) whereby a highly active and functional group tolerant alkyne metathesis catalyst yields scalable quantities of AEMs under thermodynamic controlled reaction conditions.