Synthesis and assembly of extended quintulene

Hao Hou; Xin-Jing Zhao; Chun Tang; Yang-Yang Ju; Ze-Ying Deng; Xin-Rong Wang; Liu-Bin Feng; Dong-Hai Lin; Xu Hou; Akimitsu Narita; Klaus Müllen; Yuan-Zhi Tan

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17691-7

Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Synthesis and assembly of extended quintulene

Hao Hou,
Xin-Jing Zhao,
Chun Tang,
Yang-Yang Ju,
Ze-Ying Deng,
Xin-Rong Wang,
Liu-Bin Feng,
Dong-Hai Lin,
Xu Hou,
Akimitsu Narita,
Klaus Müllen,
Yuan-Zhi Tan

Affiliations

Hao Hou: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Xin-Jing Zhao: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Chun Tang: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Yang-Yang Ju: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Ze-Ying Deng: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Xin-Rong Wang: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Liu-Bin Feng: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Dong-Hai Lin: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Xu Hou: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Akimitsu Narita: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Klaus Müllen: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Yuan-Zhi Tan: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17691-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Quintulene, a quintuple non-graphitic cycloarene, is challenging to synthesize. Here, the authors synthesize and characterize the cone-shaped extended quintulene and its bilayer dimer, and disclose its dimerization as an entropy-driven, second-order reaction with a substantial activation energy.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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