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Yeung CF, Shek HL, Yiu SM, Tse MK, Wong CY. Controlled Activation of Dipicolinyl-Substituted Propargylic Alcohol by Ru(II) and Os(II) for Unprecedented Indolizine-Fused Metallafuran Complexes. Organometallics 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.1c00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Chi-Fung Yeung
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
- State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
- State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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Wu J, Lin L, Zhu J. Probing the origin of ambiphilic reactivity in osmapentalyne complexes: Interplay of ring strain, aromaticity, and phosphonium substituent. J Organomet Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2021.121866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Yuanyuan Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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Huang Y, Wu J, Qiu R, Xu F, Zhu J. Probing the tautomerization of disilenes and disilabenzenes with their isomeric silylenes: significant substituent, aromaticity and base effects. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:17341-17349. [PMID: 33206739 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt03527k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Disilene has attracted considerable interest due to the trans-bending geometry which is significantly different from the planar alkene. However, the equilibrium between disilene and isomeric silylsilylene has not been fully understood. Here, we report a density functional theory (DFT) study on this equilibrium. Calculations reveal significant effects of substituent, aromaticity and base. Specifically, the parent disilene is thermodynamically more stable than the isomeric silylene. When the methoxy substituent is introduced, the corresponding silylene becomes thermodynamically more stable, which could be rationalized by the Bent's rule. Interestingly, disilabenzene becomes thermodynamically more stable than the isomeric silylene when the concept of aromaticity is taken into account. Finally, once the base is introduced, the silylene could become thermodynamically more stable than the isomeric disilabenzene. The kinetic effect of the tautomerization with several typical substituents (F, Me and OMe) has also been investigated. Some species with a bridged form have been found to have a higher thermodynamic stability over the nonbridged ones. All these findings could be particularly useful to develop the chemistry of disilenes and silylenes.
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- Yuanyuan Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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Yu C, Zhong M, Zhang Y, Wei J, Ma W, Zhang W, Ye S, Xi Z. Butadienyl Diiron Complexes: Nonplanar Metalla‐Aromatics Involving σ‐Type Orbital Overlap. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202008986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Chao Yu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences 457 Zhongshan Road Dalian 116023 China
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
- State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Shanghai 200032 China
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Yu C, Zhong M, Zhang Y, Wei J, Ma W, Zhang WX, Ye S, Xi Z. Butadienyl Diiron Complexes: Nonplanar Metalla-Aromatics Involving σ-Type Orbital Overlap. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:19048-19053. [PMID: 32686269 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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A new class of nonplanar metalla-aromatics, diiron complexes bridged by a 1,3-butadienyl dianionic ligand, were synthesized in high yields from dilithio reagents and two equivalents of FeBr2 . The complexes consist of two antiferromagnetically coupled high-spin FeII centers, as revealed by magnetometry, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and DFT calculations. Furthermore, experimental (X-ray structural analysis) and theoretical analyses (NICS, ICSS, AICD, MOs) suggest that the complexes are aromatic. Remarkably, this nonplanar metalla-aromaticity is achieved by an uncommon σ-type overlap between the ligand p and metal d orbitals, in sharp contrast to the intensively studied planar aromatic systems featuring delocalized π-type bonding. Specifically, the σ-type interaction between the two Fe 3dxz orbitals and the butadienyl π orbital results in the formation of a six-electron conjugated system and hence enables the aromatic character.
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- Chao Yu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, China.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.,State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Zhu Q, Lin L, Qiu R, Zhu J. Are Hetero-metallapentalenes Aromatic or Not? A DFT Investigation. Chemistry 2020; 26:5381-5387. [PMID: 31975467 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Aromaticity is one of the most basic concepts in organic chemistry. The planar Möbius aromatic metallapentalynes and metallapentalenes have attracted considerable attention in the past few years. However, the aromaticity of metallapentalenes containing heteroatoms (such as B, N, and O), termed as hetero-metallapentalenes, is rarely studied. Herein, the stability and aromaticity of a series of hetero-metallapentalenes are theoretically investigated. The results reveal lower aromaticity in metallaborapentalene, comparable aromaticity in metallazapentalene, and nonaromaticity in metalloxapentalene relative to that of metallapentalene. Moreover, the effect of Lewis bases on the aromaticity and stability of metallaborapentalene is discussed. These results provide useful information for experimental chemists to realize more hetero-metallapentalenes.
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- Qin Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P.R. China
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Wu J, Rouf AM, Huang Y, Zhuang D, Zhu J. Theoretical study on the stability and aromaticity in silapentafulvenes towards triplet ground state species. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:4668-4676. [PMID: 32057041 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp06506g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Pentafulvenes are dipolar hydrocarbons since they shift their π-electrons to achieve Hückel aromaticity and thus the electron donating groups at the exocyclic position can enhance their aromaticity. Silapentafulvenes are analogues of pentafulvene formed by the replacement of the carbon atoms at the exocyclic C[double bond, length as m-dash]C double bond with a silicon atom in pentafulvene. It remains unclear how the aromaticity of 5-silapentafulvenes and 6-silapentafulvenes can be changed due to the polarization of the C[double bond, length as m-dash]Si double bond. Here we perform density functional theory calculations and reveal the increased aromatic character in 6-silapentafulvenes and the reduced aromaticity of 5-silapentafulvenes in the ground state. In addition, the origin of the relative thermodynamic stability of the silapentafulvene isomers can be attributed to the bond dissociation energy (BDE) of the exocyclic bond. More interestingly, some triplet ground state 5-silapentafulvene species are predicted by introducing amino groups on the ring, which is supported by the coupled cluster calculations. Our findings could be useful for experimentalists to realize silaaromatics.
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- Jiashun Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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Zhang Y, Wei J, Zhu M, Chi Y, Zhang W, Ye S, Xi Z. Tetralithio Metalla‐aromatics with Two Independent Perpendicular Dilithio Aromatic Rings Spiro‐fused by One Manganese Atom. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201904681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Yongliang Zhang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationCollege of ChemistryPeking University Beijing 100871 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationCollege of ChemistryPeking University Beijing 100871 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationCollege of ChemistryPeking University Beijing 100871 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationCollege of ChemistryPeking University Beijing 100871 P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationCollege of ChemistryPeking University Beijing 100871 P. R. China
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- Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research 45470 Mülheim a. d. Ruhr Germany
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationCollege of ChemistryPeking University Beijing 100871 P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Organometallic ChemistryShanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Shanghai 200032 P. R. China
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Zhang Y, Wei J, Zhu M, Chi Y, Zhang WX, Ye S, Xi Z. Tetralithio Metalla-aromatics with Two Independent Perpendicular Dilithio Aromatic Rings Spiro-fused by One Manganese Atom. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:9625-9631. [PMID: 31102480 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201904681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Herein, we present the realization of a class of unprecedented aromatic structures 2: metalla-aromatics with two independent and perpendicular aromatic rings spiro-fused by a transition-metal spiro atom, of which their corresponding organic analogues are impossible. Tetralithio spiro manganacycles 2 are readily synthesized from 1,4-dilithio-1,3-butadienes 1 and MnCl2 in the presence of lithium. The aromaticity of 2 is supported by experimental measurements (X-ray structural analysis, NMR) and theoretical analyses (NICS, ACID, MOs). The spiro atom Mn in 2 uses its 3dxz and 3dxy orbitals to form the two perpendicular manganacycles, which are two independent 6π aromatic systems. Theoretical analyses reveal that the Li cations play an indispensable role in governing their geometric and electronic structures and hence their aromaticity. Therefore, this work contributes not only to enrich the concept of aromaticity, but also to deepen the understanding of the fundamental chemical bonding.
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- Yongliang Zhang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
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- Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research, 45470, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China.,State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, 200032, P. R. China
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Chen D, Xie Q, Zhu J. Unconventional Aromaticity in Organometallics: The Power of Transition Metals. Acc Chem Res 2019; 52:1449-1460. [PMID: 31062968 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Aromaticity, one of the most fundamental concepts in chemistry, has attracted considerable attention from both theoreticians and experimentalists. Much effort on aromaticity in organometallics has been devoted to metallabenzene and derivatives. In comparison, aromaticity in other organometallics is less developed. This Account describes how our group has performed quantum chemical calculations to examine aromaticity in recently synthesized novel organometallic complexes. By collaborations with experimentalists, we have extended several aromaticity concepts into organometallics to highlight the power of transition metals. In general, the transition metal could participate in delocalization either out of rings or in the rings. We examined the former by probing the possibility of transition metal substituents in hyperconjugative aromaticity, where the metal is out of the rings. Calculations on tetraaurated heteroaryl complexes reveal that incorporation of the aurated substituents at the nitrogen atom can convert nonaromaticity in the parent indolium into aromaticity in the aurated one due to hyperconjugation, thus extending the concept of hyperconjugative aromaticity to heterocycles with transition metal substituents. More importantly, further analysis indicates that the aurated substituents can perform better than traditional main-group substituents. Recently, we also probed the strongest aromatic cyclopentadiene and pyrrolium rings by hyperconjugation of transition metal substituents. Moreover, theoretical calculations suggest that one electropositive substituent is able to induce aromaticity; whereas one electronegative substituent prompts nonaromaticity rather than antiaromaticity. We also probed the possibility of Craig-type Möbius aromaticity in organometallic chemistry, where the position of the transition metals is in the rings. According to the electron count and topology, aromaticity can be classified as Hückel-type and Möbius-type. In comparison with numerous Hückel aromatics containing 4 n+2 π-electrons, Möbius aromatics with 4 n π-electrons, especially the Craig-type species, are particularly limited. We first examined aromaticity in osmapentalynes. Theoretical calculations reveal that incorporation of the osmium center not only reduces the ring strain of the parent pentalyne, but also converts Hückel antiaromaticity in the parent pentalyne into Craig-type Möbius aromaticity in metallapentalynes. Further studies show that the transition metal fragments can also make both 16e and 18e osmapentalenes aromatic, indicating that the Craig-type Möbius aromaticity in osmapentalyne is rooted in osmapentalenes. In addition, Möbius aromaticity is also possible in dimetalla[10]annulenes, where the lithium atoms are not spectator cations but play an important role due to their bonding interaction with the diene moieties. We then examined the possibility of σ-aromaticity in an unsaturated ring. Traditional π-aromaticity is used to describe the π-conjugation in fully unsaturated rings; whereas σ-aromaticity may stabilize fully saturated rings with delocalization caused by σ-electron conjugation. We found that the unsaturated three-membered ring in cyclopropaosmapentalene is σ-aromatic. Very recently, we extended σ-aromaticity into in a fully unsaturated ring. The concepts and examples presented here show the importance of interplay and union between experiment and theory in developing novel aromatic systems and, especially, the indispensable role of computational study in rationalization of unconventional aromaticity. All these findings highlight the strong power of transition metals originating from participation of d orbitals in aromaticity, opening an avenue to the design of unique metalla-aromatics.
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- Dandan Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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Shen T, Chen D, Lin L, Zhu J. Dual Aromaticity in Both the T0 and S1 States: Osmapyridinium with Phosphonium Substituents. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:5720-5727. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Ting Shen
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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Adaptive aromaticity in S0 and T1 states of pentalene incorporating 16 valence electron osmium. Commun Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1038/s42004-018-0018-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Hongjian Wang
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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Mallick S, Lu Y, Luo MH, Meng M, Tan YN, Liu CY, Zuo JL. Aromaticity-Driven Molecular Structural Variation and Electronic Configuration Alternation: An Example of Cyclic π Conjugation Involving a Mo-Mo δ Bond. Inorg Chem 2017; 56:14888-14899. [PMID: 29206033 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We have synthesized and characterized the mixed-ligand dimolybdenum paddlewheel complex Na[(DAniF)3Mo2(C3S5)] (Na[1]; DAniF = N,N'-di-p-anisylformamidinate, dmit = 1,3-dithiole-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate), which has a six-membered chelating [Mo2S2C2] ring created by equatorial coordination of the dmit (C3S5) ligand to the Mo2 unit. One-electron oxidation of Na[1] using Cp2FePF6 yields the neutral complex [(DAniF)3Mo2(C3S5)] ([1]), and removal of two electrons from Na[1] using AgBPh4 gives [(DAniF)3Mo2(C3S5)]BPh4 ([1]BPh4). In the crystal structures, [1]- and [1] present dihedral angles of 118.9 and 142.3° between the plane defined by the Mo-Mo bond vector and the dmit ligand, respectively, while DFT calculations show that in [1]+ the Mo-Mo bond and the dmit ligand are coplanar. Complex [1] is paramagnetic with a g value of 1.961 in the EPR spectrum and has a Mo-Mo bond distance of 2.133(1) Å, increased from 2.0963(9) Å for [1]-. Consistently, a broad absorption band is observed for [1] in the near-IR region, which arises from charge transfer from the dmit ligand to the cationic Mo25+ centers. Interestingly, complex [1]+ has an aromatic [Mo2S2C2] core, as evidenced by a large diamagnetic anisotropy, in addition to the coplanarity of the core structure, which shifts downfield the 1H NMR signal of the horizontal methine proton (ArN-(CH)-NAr) but upfield those of the vertical protons, relative to the methine proton resonances for the precursor ([1]-). The magnetic anisotropy (Δχ = χ⊥ - χ∥) for the [Mo2S2C2] ring in [1]+ is -105.5 ppm cgs, calculated from the McConnell equation, which is about 2-fold larger than that for benzene. The aromaticity of the [Mo2S2C2] ring is supported by theoretical studies, including single-point calculations and gauge-including atomic orbital (GIAO) NMR spectroscopic calculations at the density functional theory (DFT) level. DFT calculations also show that the [Mo2S2C2] core in [1]+ possesses a set of three highest occupied and three lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals in π character, corresponding to those of benzene in symmetry, and six π electrons that conform to the Hückel 4n + 2 rule for aromaticity. Therefore, this study shows that an aromatic [Mo2S2C2] core is formed by coupling the δ orbital of the Mo≣Mo bond with the π orbital of the C═C bond through the bridging atoms (S), thus validating the equivalency in bonding functionality between δ and π orbitals.
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- Suman Mallick
- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University , 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou-510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Tongji University , Shanghai-200092, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University , 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou-510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University , 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou-510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University , 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou-510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University , 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou-510632, China.,Department of Chemistry, Tongji University , Shanghai-200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing-210023, China
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Wu J, An K, Sun T, Fan J, Zhu J. To Be Bridgehead or Not to Be? This is a Question of Metallabicycles on the Interplay between Aromaticity and Ring Strain. Organometallics 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jingjing Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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Zhu C, Wu J, Li S, Yang Y, Zhu J, Lu X, Xia H. Synthesis and Characterization of a Metallacyclic Framework with Three Fused Five-membered Rings. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:9067-9071. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201704057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Revised: 05/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Congqing Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials; School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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Zhu C, Wu J, Li S, Yang Y, Zhu J, Lu X, Xia H. Synthesis and Characterization of a Metallacyclic Framework with Three Fused Five-membered Rings. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201704057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Congqing Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials; School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Nanjing University; Nanjing 210093 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM); Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005 China
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Zhu Q, Zhu C, Deng Z, He G, Chen J, Zhu J, Xia H. Synthesis and Characterization of Osmium Polycyclic Aromatic Complexes via Nucleophilic Reactions of Osmapentalyne. CHINESE J CHEM 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.201600478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Qin Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen Fujian 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen Fujian 361005 China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Materials; Xiamen University; Xiamen Fujian 361005 China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Materials; Xiamen University; Xiamen Fujian 361005 China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Materials; Xiamen University; Xiamen Fujian 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen Fujian 361005 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Xiamen University; Xiamen Fujian 361005 China
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The chemistry of the carbon-transition metal double and triple bond: Annual survey covering the year 2014. Coord Chem Rev 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2015.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Liu T, Zheng XW, Han LL, Li YP, Han SM, Yu ZY. Mechanistic insight into the selective cyclization of arylnitrones to indolines via Rh(iii) catalyst: a theoretical study. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra01111j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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A density functional theory (DFT) study was performed to understand detailed mechanisms for the Rh(iii)-catalyzed coupling reaction of phenylnitrone with diphenylacetylene in different reaction conditions.
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- Tao Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jining University
- Qufu 273155
- China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jining University
- Qufu 273155
- China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jining University
- Qufu 273155
- China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Qufu Normal University
- Qufu 273165
- China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Qufu Normal University
- Qufu 273165
- China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Jining University
- Qufu 273155
- China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
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Sun H, An K, Zhu J. Triplet State Aromaticity: NICS Criterion, Hyperconjugation, and Charge Effects. Chem Asian J 2015; 11:234-40. [PMID: 26507692 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201500897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Revised: 09/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Aromaticity, one of the most important concepts in organic chemistry, has attracted considerable interest from both experimentalists and theoreticians. It remains unclear which NICS index is best to evaluate the triplet-state aromaticity. Here, we carry out thorough density functional theory (DFT) calculations to examine this issue. Our results indicate that among the various computationally available NICS indices, NICS(1)zz is the best for the triplet state. The correlations can be improved from 0.840 to 0.938 when only neutral species are considered, demonstrating the significant effect of the charge on the triplet-state aromaticity. In addition, calculations suggest that five-membered cyclic species with "hyperconjugative" aromaticity (and antiaromaticity) in the S0 state will become antiaromatic (and aromatic) in the T1 state, indicating an important role of hyperconjugation. Finally, a moderate correlation (r(2) =0.708) is identified between the NICS(1)zz values and spin distributions.
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- Hongchao Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, P. R. China.
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Hao Y, Wu J, Zhu J. σ Aromaticity Dominates in the Unsaturated Three-Membered Ring of Cyclopropametallapentalenes from Groups 7-9: A DFT Study. Chemistry 2015; 21:18805-10. [PMID: 26559932 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201502390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
Aromaticity, an old but still fantastic topic, has long attracted considerable interest of chemists. Generally, π aromaticity is described by π-electron delocalization in closed circuits of unsaturated compounds whereas σ-electron delocalization in saturated rings leads to σ aromaticity. Interestingly, our recent study shows that σ aromaticity can be dominating in an unsaturated three-membered ring (3MR) of cyclopropaosmapentalene. An interesting question is raised: Can the σ aromaticity, which is dominant in the unsaturated 3MR, be extended to other cyclopropametallapentalenes? If so, how could the metal centers, ligands, and substituents affect the σ aromaticity? Here, we report a thorough theoretical study on these issues. The nucleus-independent chemical shift calculations and the anisotropy of the current-induced density plots reveal the dominant σ aromaticity in these unsaturated 3MRs. In addition, our calculations show that substituents on the 3MRs have significant effects on the σ aromaticity, whereas the ligand effect is particularly small.
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- Yulei Hao
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (P. R. China) http://junzhu.chem8.org
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (P. R. China) http://junzhu.chem8.org
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (P. R. China) http://junzhu.chem8.org.
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Wu J, Zhu J. The Clar Structure in Inorganic BN Analogues of Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons: Does it Exist or Not? Chemphyschem 2015; 16:3806-13. [PMID: 26467786 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The Clar structure of polybenzenoid hydrocarbons (PBHs) have attracted considerable interest of both theoretical and experimental chemists since it was proposed in the 1950s. However, it remains unclear whether the Clar structure could exist in inorganic PBHs, the boron nitride (BN) analogues where the alternate boron and nitrogen atoms are used to replace the carbon atoms of PBHs. Here, we carry out thorough density functional theory (DFT) calculations to probe the possibility of Clar structures in BN analogues of PBHs. A strong correlation (r(2) =0.975) between the ring number (n=3-10) of BN analogues of [n]acenes and energy differences between the most and least stable isomers is identified, suggesting the existence of Clar structures in inorganic PBHs. In addition, the slightly weaker correlations in comparison to that (r(2) =0.989) of the organic PBHs is rationalized by the reduced aromaticity, which is revealed by two aromatic indices: ELFπ and SCI.
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- Jingjing Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, P. R. China.
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Zhu C, Yang Y, Wu J, Luo M, Fan J, Zhu J, Xia H. Five-Membered Cyclic Metal Carbyne: Synthesis of Osmapentalynes by the Reactions of Osmapentalene with Allene, Alkyne, and Alkene. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201502412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Zhu C, Yang Y, Wu J, Luo M, Fan J, Zhu J, Xia H. Five-membered cyclic metal carbyne: synthesis of osmapentalynes by the reactions of osmapentalene with allene, alkyne, and alkene. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:7189-92. [PMID: 25917530 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201502412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
The synthesis of small cyclic metal carbynes is challenging due to the large angle strain associated with the highly distorted nonlinear triple bonds. Herein, we report a general route for the synthesis of five-membered cyclic metal carbyne complexes, osmapentalynes, by the reactions of an osmapentalene derivative with allene, alkyne, and alkene. Experimental observations and theoretical calculations document the aromaticity in the fused five-membered rings of osmapentalynes. The realization of transforming osmapentalene to osmapentalyne through this general route would not only allow further exploration of metallapentalyne chemistry but also show promising applications of this novel aromatic system with broad absorption band and high molar absorption coefficient.
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- Congqing Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm.
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Zhu C, Yang Y, Luo M, Yang C, Wu J, Chen L, Liu G, Wen T, Zhu J, Xia H. Stabilizing Two Classical Antiaromatic Frameworks: Demonstration of Photoacoustic Imaging and the Photothermal Effect in Metalla-aromatics. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:6181-5. [PMID: 25824395 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201501349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Antiaromatic species are substantially less thermodynamically stable than aromatic moieties. Herein, we report the stabilization of two classical antiaromatic frameworks, cyclobutadiene and pentalene, by introducing one metal fragment through the first [2+2] cycloaddition reaction of a late-transition-metal carbyne with alkynes. Experimental observations and theoretical calculations reveal that the metal fragment decreases the antiaromaticity in cyclobutadiene and pentalene simultaneously, leading to air- and moisture-stable products. These molecules show broad absorption from the UV to the near-IR region, resulting in photoacoustic and photothermal effects for metalla-aromatic compounds for the first time. These results will encourage further efforts into the exploration of organometallic compounds for photoacoustic-imaging-guided photothermal therapy.
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- Congqing Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics and Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102 (China)
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics and Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102 (China)
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (China) http://junzhu.chem8.org/ http://chem.xmu.edu.cn/group/hpxia/index.htm.
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Zhu C, Yang Y, Luo M, Yang C, Wu J, Chen L, Liu G, Wen T, Zhu J, Xia H. Stabilizing Two Classical Antiaromatic Frameworks: Demonstration of Photoacoustic Imaging and the Photothermal Effect in Metalla-aromatics. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201501349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Zhu C, Zhou X, Xing H, An K, Zhu J, Xia H. σ-Aromaticity in an Unsaturated Ring: Osmapentalene Derivatives Containing a Metallacyclopropene Unit. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:3102-6. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201411220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Revised: 12/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Zhu C, Zhou X, Xing H, An K, Zhu J, Xia H. σ-Aromaticity in an Unsaturated Ring: Osmapentalene Derivatives Containing a Metallacyclopropene Unit. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201411220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Sun GX, Ju MG, Zang H, Zhao Y, Liang W. Mechanisms of large Stokes shift and aggregation-enhanced emission of osmapentalyne cations in solution: combined MD simulations and QM/MM calculations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:24438-45. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03800f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The large Stokes shift and aggregation-enhanced emission of OCs are caused by the photoexcitation-induced chromophore's symmetrical variation and molecular aggregation in solutions, respectively.
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- Guang-Xu Sun
- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei 230026
- China
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- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei 230026
- China
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- Department of Chemical Physics
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Hefei 230026
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Xiamen University
- Xiamen 361005
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, and Department of Chemistry
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Xiamen University
- Xiamen 361005
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Huang Y, Zhu J. Unexpected 1,2-migration in metallasilabenzenes: theoretical evidence for reluctance of silicon to participate in π bonding. Chem Asian J 2014; 10:405-10. [PMID: 25385431 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201402992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out to investigate the 1,2-migration in metallasilabenzenes. The results suggested that the chloride migration of metallabenzenes is unfavorable due to the loss of aromaticity in the nonaromatic analogues. In sharp contrast, such a migration in metallasilabenzenes is favorable due to the reluctance of silicon to participate in π bonding. The migration of hydride and methyl group from the metal center to the silicon atom in metallasilabenzenes is computed to be also feasible. In addition, the π donor ligand and the third row transition metal can stabilize metallasilabenzenes. Thus, such a migration becomes less favorable thermodynamically and kinetically. These findings could be very helpful for synthetic chemists to realize the first metallasilabenzene.
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- Ying Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005(P. R. China) http://junzhu.chem8.org
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Theoretical study on the interconversion of silabenzenes and their monocyclic non-aromatic isomers via the [1,3]-substituent shift: Interplay of aromaticity and Bent's rule. J Organomet Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2014.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Zhu C, Zhu Q, Fan J, Zhu J, He X, Cao XY, Xia H. A Metal-Bridged Tricyclic Aromatic System: Synthesis of Osmium Polycyclic Aromatic Complexes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:6232-6. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201403245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Zhu C, Zhu Q, Fan J, Zhu J, He X, Cao XY, Xia H. A Metal-Bridged Tricyclic Aromatic System: Synthesis of Osmium Polycyclic Aromatic Complexes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201403245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Fan J, Wang X, Zhu J. Unconventional Facile Way to Metallanaphthalenes from Metal Indenyl Complexes Predicted by DFT Calculations: Origin of Their Different Thermodynamics and Tuning Their Kinetics by Substituents. Organometallics 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/om500245q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jinglan Fan
- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry
and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry
and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical
Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry
and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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