Generation of a transient base-stabilised arylalumylene for the facile deconstruction of aromatic molecules
Debabrata Dhara, Arumugam Jayaraman, Marcel Härterich, Rian D. Dewhurst, Holger Braunschweig
Abstract
Attempts to form a base-stabilised arylalumylene by reducing an NHC-coordinated diiodoterphenylalane led to a masked dialumene. Reactivity studies showed it decouples to initially aimed arylalumylene, which easily deconstructs less reactive arenes.
Topics & Concepts
SubstituentChemistrySteric effectsTerphenylAnthraceneAzuleneCarbeneBenzeneTolueneBiphenylMoleculeAromaticityPhotochemistryMedicinal chemistryStereochemistryOrganic chemistryCatalysisSynthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compoundsOrganoboron and organosilicon chemistryCoordination Chemistry and Organometallics