Unprecedented high molar circular dichroism values for all‐carbon macrocycles were revealed in 1,3‐butadiyne bridged pseudo‐meta‐[2.2]paracyclophanes. The angle and flexibility of the pseudo‐meta substituents enabled high yielding macrocyclization reactions, and the studied trimeric, tetrameric, pentameric and hexameric structures further displayed astonishing through‐space polymer‐like conjugation lengths. More information can be found in the Research Article by M. Mayor et al. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202201764).
Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Marcel Mayor at the University of Basel with co‐workers Olaf Fuhr and Dieter Fenske from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The image depicts the studied all‐carbon polygon shaped macrocycles along with their intense circular dichroism spectra in the background. The bright light within the macrocycles displays its efficient conjugation. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202201764.
The synthetic access to macrocyclic molecular topologies with interesting photophysical properties has greatly improved thanks to the successful implementation of organic and inorganic corner units. Based on recent reports, we realized pseudo-meta [2.2]paracyclophanes (PCPs) might serve as optimal corner units for constructing 3D functional materials, owing to their efficient electronic communication, angled substituents and planar chirality. Herein, we report the synthesis, characterization and optical properties of four novel all-carbon enantiopure macrocycles bearing three to six pseudo-meta PCPs linked by 1,3-butadiyne units. The macrocycles were obtained by a single step from enantiopure literature known dialkyne pseudo-meta PCP and were unambiguously identified and characterized by state of the art spectroscopic methods and in part even by x-ray crystallography. By comparing the optical properties to relevant reference compounds, we show that the pseudo-meta PCP subunit effectively elongates the conjugated system throughout the macrocyclic backbone, such that already the smallest macrocycle consisting of only three subunits reaches an astounding polymer-like conjugation length. Additionally, we show that the chiral pseudo-meta PCPs induce remarkable chiroptical response in the respective macrocycles, reaching unprecedented high molar dichroism values for all-carbon macrocycles of up to 1307 L mol-1 cm-1.
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