Enhanced π-frustration in carbo-benzenic chromophores

Iaroslav Baglai; Valérie Maraval; Christian Bijani; Nathalie Saffon-Merceron; Zoia Voitenko; Yulian M Volovenko; Remi Chauvin

doi:10.1039/c3cc43204a

Enhanced π-frustration in carbo-benzenic chromophores

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Sep 28;49(75):8374-6. doi: 10.1039/c3cc43204a.

Authors

Iaroslav Baglai¹, Valérie Maraval, Christian Bijani, Nathalie Saffon-Merceron, Zoia Voitenko, Yulian M Volovenko, Remi Chauvin

Affiliation

¹ CNRS, LCC (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination), 205 route de Narbonne, BP 44099, F-31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France. vmaraval@lcc-toulouse.fr chauvin@lcc-toulouse.fr.

PMID: 23936897
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc43204a

Abstract

The synthesis, structure, and absorption spectra of highly π-frustrated carbo-benzenes with indolic enamine substituents more or less directly conjugated to the C18 macro-aromatic core are described, and their peculiar reactivity is analyzed.