Co-reporter:Xinming Liu, Panpan Yu, Li Xu, Juanjuan Yang, Jianwu Shi, Zhihua Wang, Yanxiang Cheng, and Hua Wang
The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2013 Volume 78(Issue 12) pp:6316-6321
Publication Date(Web):May 28, 2013
DOI:10.1021/jo400691s
In this work, the racemate and mesomer of the thiophene-based naphthalene-cored double helicenes (1) were obtained efficiently by one-pot photocyclization of 1,1,2,2-tetrakis(dithieno[2,3-b:3′,2′-d]thiophen-2-yl)ethene in the presence of iodine in dry benzene. The structure of meso-1a was confirmed by single crystal X-ray analysis. The chiral resolution of the racemate was carried out by chiral HPLC, and the chiral properties, such as CD spectra, optical rotations, and half-life of enantiomers were characterized.