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Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.116, No.8, 3177-3179, 1994
Lithium-Induced Cyclization of Tetrabenzocyclyne - A Novel Zipper Reaction of Cyclic O-Ethynylbenzenes
Reacting lithium with 1,2:5,6:9,10:13,14-Tetrabenzo-3,7,11,15-tetradehydro[16]annulene (tetrabenzocyclyne, QBC) in THF gives the meso and d,l-pair of 9,1 8-bis(trimethylsilyl) diindeno[2,3-g:2’,3’-p]chrysene. The X-ray crystal structures of these compounds show them to be ribbon oligomers with two helical interactions correlated with two chiral centers.