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Synthesis of a basket-shaped C56H38 hydrocarbon as a precursor toward an end-cap template for carbon [6,6]nanotubes
Cui, Hu,Akhmedov, Novruz G.,Petersen, Jeffrey L.,Wang, Kung K.
, p. 2050 - 2056 (2010)
Chemical Equation Presented A basket-shaped C 56H38 hydrocarbon (3) possessing a 30-carbon difluorenonaphthacenyl core that can be mapped onto the surface of C 78 was synthesized, from 4-bromo-1-indanone. The first stage of the synthesis involved the preparation of tetraketone 10 as a key intermediate. The use of cascade cyclization reactions of benzannulated enyne-alienes as key features in the next stage of the synthetic sequence provides an efficient route to 3 from 4-bromo-1-indanone in 12 steps. The all-cis relationship among the methyl groups and the methine hydrogens causes the two benzofluorenyl units in 3 to be in an essentially perpendicular orientation to each, other. Hydrocarbon 3 and its derivatives could serve as attractive precursors leading to a geodesic C68H26 end-cap template for carbon [6,6]-nanotubes.