Premium
Bowl‐Shaped Pentagon‐ and Heptagon‐Embedded Nanographene Containing a Central Pyrrolo[3,2‐ b ]pyrrole Core
Author(s) -
Krzeszewski Maciej,
Dobrzycki Łukasz,
Sobolewski Andrzej L.,
Cyrański Michał K.,
Gryko Daniel T.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.202104092
Subject(s) - intramolecular force , pyrrole , stacking , crystallography , chemistry , dipole , molecular physics , materials science , stereochemistry , organic chemistry
A bowl‐shaped nitrogen‐doped nanographene composed of a pyrrolo[3,2‐b]pyrrole core substituted with six arene rings circularly bonded with one another has been prepared via a concise synthetic strategy encompassing the multicomponent tetraarylpyrrolopyrrole (TAPP) synthesis, the Scholl reaction, and intramolecular direct arylation. This synthesis represents the first case of programmed sequential intramolecular direct arylation reactions utilizing the different reactivity of C–Br and C–Cl bonds. The target compound contains two central pentagons confined between two adjacent heptagons—the inverse Stone–Thrower–Wales topology. The presence of both five‐ and seven‐membered rings in the final structure is responsible for interesting properties such as a perpendicularly aligned dipole moment, absorption and fluorescence in the orange‐red region, weak emission originating from the charge‐transfer character of a low‐energy absorption band, and a high lying HOMO. In the solid state slipped convex‐to‐convex π–π stacking dominates.