Triflate-Subphthalocyanines: Versatile, Reactive Intermediates for Axial Functionalization at the Boron Atom

✍ Scribed by Julia Guilleme; Dr. David González-Rodríguez; Prof. Tomas Torres

• Book ID: 101572849
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 331 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201007240

✦ Synopsis

on the occasion of his 60th birthday

The development of simple, high-yielding, and reliable synthetic methodologies to attach different molecular fragments to a core molecule is of paramount importance in view of the increasing complexity of the molecular systems studied in modern chemistry. [1] Such methods allow, for instance, the efficient incorporation of photoactive units into polymers, biomolecules, surfaces, or multicomponent organic materials for fluorescence sensing, light-harvesting, or photovoltaics. [2] Among these units, the submacrocycles (Scheme 1) [3] that comprise the subphthalocyanines (SubPcs), subporphyrazines (SubPzs), subnaphthalocyanines (SubNcs), and the subporphyrins (SubPors), are becoming an important family of chromophores that exhibit outstanding photophysical properties. [4] They show strong electronic absorption, high fluores-