Planar P6E6 (E = Se, S) macrocycles incorporating P2N2 scaffolds

Andreas Nordheider; Tristram Chivers; Ramalingam Thirumoorthi; Ignacio Vargas-Baca; J. Derek Woollins

doi:10.1039/C2CC32809G

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Planar P₆E₆ (E = Se, S) macrocycles incorporating P₂N₂ scaffolds†‡

Andreas Nordheider,^ab Tristram Chivers,*^a Ramalingam Thirumoorthi,^a Ignacio Vargas-Baca^c and J. Derek Woollins^b

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^a Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
E-mail: chivers@ucalgary.ca

^b Department of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

^c Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4M1

Abstract

Oxidation of alkali metal derivatives of the dianions [E(^tBuN)P(μ-N^tBu)₂P(N^tBu)E]²⁻ (E = S, Se) with I₂ produces 15-membered macrocycles in which a planar P₆E₆ motif is stabilised by perpendicular P₂N₂ scaffolds.

This article is part of the themed collections: Selenium & Tellurium chemistry at the beginning of the 3rd millennium: a celebration of ICCST and Frontiers in Molecular Main Group Chemistry

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC32809G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 19 Dzi 2012
Accepted: 02 Mud 2012
First published: 03 Mud 2012

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Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6346-6348

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Planar P₆E₆ (E = Se, S) macrocycles incorporating P₂N₂ scaffolds

A. Nordheider, T. Chivers, R. Thirumoorthi, I. Vargas-Baca and J. D. Woollins, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6346 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC32809G

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