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Chemical Communications

Metalla-phenalene complexes: synthesis, structure and aromaticity†

Yue Sun,‡a   Yan Zhou, ORCID logo ‡b   Wei Bai, ORCID logo *a   Yang Li ORCID logo *ac  and  Yilun Wangac  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning 116024, P. R. China
E-mail: baiwei@dlut.edu.cn, chyangli@dlut.edu.cn

b School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University for Nationalities, 188 Daxue East Road, Nanning, Guangxi 530006, P. R. China

c School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, Liaoning 124221, P. R. China

Abstract

Metallaaromatics show a diversity of aromaticity. In this work, we report the synthesis and structural characterization of the first rhena-phenalene complexes. In addition to the Hückel aromaticity and σ-aromaticity, pseudo π anti-aromaticity is observed. DFT computations show that this anti-aromaticity (paramagnetic properties) is induced by the fused aromatic naphthyl ring.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC05855J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Oct 2021
Accepted
25 Nov 2021
First published
01 Dec 2021

Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 435-438

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Metalla-phenalene complexes: synthesis, structure and aromaticity

Y. Sun, Y. Zhou, W. Bai, Y. Li and Y. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 435 DOI: 10.1039/D1CC05855J

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