From proximate dienes to new materials

ORGN 659

Markus Etzkorn, metzkorn@email.uncc.edu1, Matthew D. Brooker, metzkorn@email.uncc.edu1, G. K. Surya Prakash, gprakash@usc.edu2, George A. Olah, olah@usc.edu2, and Philip Chou2. (1) Department of Chemistry, UNC Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223, (2) Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661
Proximate dienes are ideal starting materials for a variety of more complex molecules such as highly strained cage compounds, heteroatom-substituted bowl-like molecules and U- or V-shaped entities as potential materials. We investigated diene A, determined the crystal structure and studied various functionalizations of the double bond. Attempts toward a clean cleavage of the double bonds to finally achieve a tetraoxa bowl will be presented. In addition the dibenzo derivative was considered as a reasonable candidate for complexation of electron-deficient aromatics.

 

Materials, Devices, and Switches
1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, 30 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- Georgia Ballroom 2, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006