Nature Communications (Apr 2019)
Gas phase synthesis of [4]-helicene
- Long Zhao,
- Ralf I. Kaiser,
- Bo Xu,
- Utuq Ablikim,
- Wenchao Lu,
- Musahid Ahmed,
- Mikhail M. Evseev,
- Eugene K. Bashkirov,
- Valeriy N. Azyazov,
- Marsel V. Zagidullin,
- Alexander N. Morozov,
- A. Hasan Howlader,
- Stanislaw F. Wnuk,
- Alexander M. Mebel,
- Dharati Joshi,
- Gregory Veber,
- Felix R. Fischer
Affiliations
- Long Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Ralf I. Kaiser
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Bo Xu
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Utuq Ablikim
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Wenchao Lu
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Musahid Ahmed
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Mikhail M. Evseev
- Samara National Research University
- Eugene K. Bashkirov
- Samara National Research University
- Valeriy N. Azyazov
- Samara National Research University
- Marsel V. Zagidullin
- Samara National Research University
- Alexander N. Morozov
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University
- A. Hasan Howlader
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University
- Stanislaw F. Wnuk
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University
- Alexander M. Mebel
- Samara National Research University
- Dharati Joshi
- Department of Chemistry, University of California
- Gregory Veber
- Department of Chemistry, University of California
- Felix R. Fischer
- Department of Chemistry, University of California
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09224-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Helicenes represent key building blocks leading eventually to carbonaceous nanostructures. Here, exploiting [4]-helicene as a benchmark, the authors present a synthetic route to racemic helicenes via a vinylacetylene mediated gas phase chemistry with aryl radicals involving ring annulation.
