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Cavity-Extended Inherently Chiral Resorcin[4]arenes: Synthesis and Chiroptical Properties of the Cycloenantiomers

✍ Scribed by Marlene Paletta; Michael Klaes; Beate Neumann; Hans-Georg Stammler; Stefan Grimme; Jochen Mattay


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
422 KB
Volume
2008
Category
Article
ISSN
1434-193X

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Abstract

Inherently chiral resorcin[4]arenes 2 and 3 were prepared from enantiomerically pure C~4~‐symmetric rccc‐2,8,14,20‐tetraisobutyl‐4,10,16,22‐tetra‐O‐methylresorcin[4]arene (1). The four 2‐bromobenzyl ether residues in precursor 2 were introduced as halide moieties to partake in an intramolecular Pd‐catalysed C–C cross‐coupling reaction to give tetrabiaryl ether compound 3. The absolute configurations could be derived from the starting compounds and were assigned as (M,R)‐(–)‐2 and (P,S)‐(+)‐2 for the tetrakis(2′‐bromobenzyl) ether compounds as well as (M,R)‐(–)‐3 and (P,S)‐(+)‐3 for the cavity‐extended resorcinarenes. The carbon scaffold of 3 contains four new stereogenic axes whose configurations were assigned by single‐crystal X‐ray analysis. The simulation of the CD spectra by time‐dependent Pariser–Parr–Pople calculations (TDPPP) based on the X‐ray data gave very good images of the experimental spectra. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008)