A naphthalene-fused dimer of an anti-aromatic expanded isophlorin

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jul 18;53(58):8211-8214. doi: 10.1039/c7cc04050d.

Abstract

We report the first synthesis of a covalent expanded isophlorin dimer from two 24-π doubly S-confused sapphyrin-like pentathiaisophlorins. It exhibits marginal peripheral aromaticity rather than strong global diatropicity or paratropicity and weak intermacrocycle electronic communication. Quantum chemical methods discern that cross-conjugation is responsible for these unusual electronic features.