Supramolecular construction of a cyclobutane ring system with four different substituents in the solid state
Open Access
- 10 May 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Communications Chemistry
- Vol. 4 (1), 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00493-3
Abstract
Methods to form cyclobutane rings by an intermolecular [2 + 2] cross-photoreaction (CPR) with four different substituents are rare. These reactions are typically performed in the liquid phase, involve multiple steps, and generate product mixtures. Here, we report a CPR that generates a cyclobutane ring with four different aryl substituents. The CPR occurs quantitatively, without side products, and without a need for product purification. Generally, we demonstrate how face-to-face stacking interactions of aromatic rings can be exploited in the process of cocrystallization and the field of crystal engineering to stack and align unsymmetrical alkenes in CPRs to afford chiral cyclobutanes with up to four different aryl groups via binary cocrystals. Overall, we expect the process herein to be useful to generate chiral carbon scaffolds, which is important given the presence of four-membered carbocyclic rings as structural units in biological compounds and materials science.Keywords
Funding Information
- NSF | Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences | Division of Materials Research (1708673)
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