Copper Causes Regiospecific Formation of C4F8‐Containing Six‐Membered Rings and their Defluorination/Aromatization to C4F4‐Containing Rings in Triphenylene/1,4‐C4F8I2 Reactions |
| |
| Authors: | Kerry C. Rippy Dr. Eric V. Bukovsky Dr. Tyler T. Clikeman Dr. Yu‐Sheng Chen Dr. Gao‐Lei Hou Dr. Xue‐Bin Wang Dr. Alexey A. Popov Dr. Olga V. Boltalina Prof. Steven H. Strauss |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA;2. ChemMatCARS, University of Chicago Advanced Proton Source, Argonne, IL, USA;3. Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA;4. Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany |
| |
| Abstract: | The presence of Cu in reactions of triphenylene (TRPH) and 1,4‐C4F8I2 at 360 °C led to regiospecific substitution of TRPH ortho C(β) atoms to form C4F8‐containing rings, completely suppressing substitution on C(α) atoms. In addition, Cu caused selective reductive‐defluorination/aromatization (RD/A) to form C4F4‐containing aromatic rings. Without Cu, the reactions of TRPH and 1,4‐C4F8I2 were not regiospecific and no RD/A was observed. These results, supported by DFT calculations, are the first examples of Cu‐promoted 1) regiospecific perfluoroannulation, 2) preparative C?F activation, and 3) RD/A. HPLC‐purified products were characterized by X‐ray diffraction, low‐temperature PES, and 1H/19F NMR. |
| |
| Keywords: | aromatization copper perfluoroalkylation triphenylene X-ray structure |
|
|
