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Three-dimensional aromaticity in an antiaromatic cyclophane
Nature Communications (2019)
  • Ryo Nozawa, Nagoya University
  • Jinseok Kim, Yonsei University
  • Juwon Oh, Yonsei University
  • Anna Lamping, Western Washington University
  • Yemei Wang, Kyushu University
  • Soji Shimizu, Kyushu University
  • Ichiro Hisaki, Hokkaido University
  • Tim Kowalczyk, Western Washington University
  • Heike Fliegl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Dongho Kim, Yonsei University
  • Hiroshi Shinokubo, Nagoya University
Abstract
Understanding of interactions among molecules is essential to elucidate the binding of pharmaceuticals on receptors, the mechanism of protein folding and self-assembling of organic molecules. While interactions between two aromatic molecules have been examined extensively, little is known about the interactions between two antiaromatic molecules. Theoretical investigations have predicted that antiaromatic molecules should be stabilized when they stack with each other by attractive intermolecular interactions. Here, we report the synthesis of a cyclophane, in which two antiaromatic porphyrin moieties adopt a stacked face-to-face geometry with a distance shorter than the sum of the van der Waals radii of the atoms involved. The aromaticity in this cyclophane has been examined experimentally and theoretically. This cyclophane exhibits three-dimensional spatial current channels between the two subunits, which corroborates the existence of attractive interactions between two antiaromatic π-systems.
Publication Date
2019
DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-11467-4
Citation Information
Ryo Nozawa, Jinseok Kim, Juwon Oh, Anna Lamping, et al.. "Three-dimensional aromaticity in an antiaromatic cyclophane" Nature Communications Vol. 10 (2019) p. 3576
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tim-kowalczyk/34/
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