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Build-up of double carbohelicenes using nitroarenes: Dual role of the nitro functionality as an activating and leaving group
Su, Rongchuan,Yang, Yudong,You, Jingsong,Zhou, Fujian,Zhou, Fulin
, p. 7424 - 7428 (2020/09/09)
The construction of double carbohelicenes is highly fascinating yet challenging work. Disclosed herein is a streamlined and simplified synthetic route to double carbohelicenes starting from nitroarenes through sequential nitro-activated ortho-C-H arylation, denitrative alkenylation and intramolecular cyclodehydrogenation. In this synthetic strategy, the nitro group plays a dual role namely as a leaving group for the denitrative alkenylation and as an activating group for ortho-C-H arylation, which is distinct from those of aryl halides in a conventional coupling reaction. In this work, the palladium-catalyzed Heck-type alkenylation of nitroarenes has been presented, in which the conventionally inert Ar-NO2 bond is cleaved. This work provides a novel synthetic strategy for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This journal is