1,2-Dicarba-closo-dodecaboran-1-yl naphthalene derivatives

Kiminori Ohta; Tokuhito Goto; Yasuyuki Endo

doi:10.1021/ic0509736

1,2-Dicarba-closo-dodecaboran-1-yl naphthalene derivatives

Inorg Chem. 2005 Nov 14;44(23):8569-73. doi: 10.1021/ic0509736.

Authors

Kiminori Ohta¹, Tokuhito Goto, Yasuyuki Endo

Affiliation

¹ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai 981-8558, Japan.

PMID: 16270997
DOI: 10.1021/ic0509736

Abstract

1,2-Dicarba-closo-dodecaboranes (o-carboranes) and naphthalenes have potential value as components or building blocks for supramolecular systems. We have efficiently synthesized 1-(1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaboran-1-yl)naphthalene and 2-(1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaboran-1-yl)naphthalene derivatives by employing three preparative methods: cyclization of the corresponding acetylenes with decaborane(14), an Ullmann-type coupling reaction of carboranes with aryl halide, and the aromatic nucleophilic substitution (S(N)Ar) reaction of aryl-o-carboranes with nitrophenyl halide. The optimum conditions of each method for synthesis of the title compounds were also investigated.