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A General Synthetic Route to Polycyclic Aromatic Dicarboximides by Palladium-Catalyzed Annulation Reaction

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The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 83 (10): 5339--5346 (March 2018)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b00301

Abstract

Here we report a general method for the synthesis of polycyclic aromatic dicarboximides (PADIs) by palladium-catalyzed annulation of naphthalene dicarboximide to different types of aromatic substrates. Reaction conditions were optimized by systematic variation of ligand, solvent, and additive. It was shown that solvent has a decisive effect on the yield of the reaction products, and thus 1-chloronaphthalene as solvent afforded the highest yield. By applying the optimized reaction conditions, a broad series of planar carbo- and heterocycle containing PADIs were synthesized in up to 97% yield. Moreover, this approach could be applied to curved aromatic scaffold to achieve the respective bowl-shaped PADI. Two-fold annulation was accomplished by employing arene diboronic esters, affording polycyclic aromatic bis(dicarboximides). The optical and electrochemical properties of this broad series of PADIs were explored as well.

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