BN/BO-Ullazines and Bis-BO-Ullazines: Effect of BO Doping on Aromaticity and Optoelectronic Properties

J Org Chem. 2021 Sep 17;86(18):12507-12516. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00777. Epub 2021 Aug 1.

Abstract

We have achieved substitutional doping of ullazine with either two BO units or with one BO unit and one BN unit. The synthesis of these B-doped ullazines is straightforward, using demethylation and borylative cyclization as the key steps. Ullazine cores of both BN/BO-ullazines (2) and bis-BO-ullazines (3) are very close to being planar. Their electronic and photophysical properties were investigated by ultraviolet-visible, fluorescence spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, and density functional theory calculations.