Möbius aromaticity and antiaromaticity in expanded porphyrins
- 1 May 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Chemistry
- Vol. 1 (2), 113-122
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.172
Abstract
Aromaticity is a key concept in chemistry, dating back to Faraday's discovery of benzene in 1825 and Kekulé's famous alternating-double-bond structure of 1865. In 1858, the Möbius strip was discovered by Möbius and Listing. The Hückel rules for predicting aromaticity, stating that [4n + 2] π electrons result in an aromatic system, work for planar molecules. Although molecules with Möbius geometry are not found in nature, chemists have tried to synthesize such molecules since the first theoretical prediction by Heilbronner in 1964 and the prediction of Möbius aromaticity for suitable compounds with [4n] π electrons. However, Möbius-aromatic molecules have proved difficult to synthesize, and sometimes even to identify. Here we summarize recent contributions of several research groups that have succeeded in synthesizing Möbius-type molecules. The results of this survey lead us to suggest that the generation of Möbius topologies in expanded porphyrins is easier than hitherto appreciated.Keywords
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