Chemistry Letters, Vol.42, No.5, 559-561, 2013
Strained and Fluxional Macrocyclic Framework of Anthracene-Diacetylene Cyclic Pentamers
Macrocyclic oligomers with five 1,8-anthrylene units and five diacetylene linkers were synthesized by successive coupling reactions. DFT calculations and variable temperature NMR measurements revealed that the cyclic framework is stained and fluxional, and each anthracene unit moves rapidly around all possible orientations.