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Aromatic Metamorphosis of Dibenzofurans into Triphenylenes Starting with Nickel-Catalyzed Ring-Opening C-O Arylation
Kurata, Yuto,Otsuka, Shinya,Fukui, Norihito,Nogi, Keisuke,Yorimitsu, Hideki,Osuka, Atsuhiro
supporting information, p. 1274 - 1277 (2017/03/22)
A new class of aromatic metamorphosis has been developed in which dibenzofurans were converted into triphenylenes. This transformation is composed of three successive operations: (1) nickel-catalyzed ring-opening C-O bond arylation with arylmagnesium bromides, (2) trifluoromethanesulfonylation (triflation) of the resulting hydroxy moiety with Tf2O, and (3) palladium-catalyzed or photoinduced ring closure. In the last ring-closing step, the photoinduced process has proven to be more productive than the palladium-catalyzed one. By employing π-extended dinaphthofuran as the substrate, dorsally benzo-fused [5]helicene was obtained in a satisfactory yield.
