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A six-carbon 10π-electron aromatic system supported by group 3 metals

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  • Wenliang Huang

    (University of California)

  • Florian Dulong

    (CEA, IRAMIS, SIS2M, CNRS UMR 3299)

  • Tianpin Wu

    (Argonne National Laboratory
    Present address: X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA.)

  • Saeed I. Khan

    (University of California)

  • Jeffrey T. Miller

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Thibault Cantat

    (CEA, IRAMIS, SIS2M, CNRS UMR 3299)

  • Paula L. Diaconescu

    (University of California)

Abstract

Aromaticity is a fundamental concept with implications spanning all the chemical sciences. Hückel’s (4n+2)π-electron rule is the standard criterion to determine aromaticity and it applies well to neutral arenes as well as to charged species such as the cyclopentadienyl anion, the cyclooctatetraene dianion and the cycloheptatrienyl cation (tropylium). In the series of all-carbon aromatic compounds, no example of a benzene tetraanion, which is theoretically a 6C, 10π-electron aromatic system, has been reported although heteroatom analogues of such a system, known as ‘electron-rich aromatics’, have been studied in detail for a long time. Here we present the isolation of the first tetraanionic-substituted benzene as a ligand coordinated to group 3 metals. The nature of the substituted benzene tetraanion and the aromaticity of the 6C, 10π-electron system were established by X-ray crystallographic studies, multi-nuclei nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations.

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  • Wenliang Huang & Florian Dulong & Tianpin Wu & Saeed I. Khan & Jeffrey T. Miller & Thibault Cantat & Paula L. Diaconescu, 2013. "A six-carbon 10π-electron aromatic system supported by group 3 metals," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 4(1), pages 1-7, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:4:y:2013:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms2473
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2473
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