Multiply exo-Methylated Corannulenes

Kazuhira Miwa; Shinobu Aoyagi; Toru Amaya; Takahiro Sasamori; Shogo Morisako; Takashi Kurogi; Hideki Yorimitsu

doi:10.1002/chem.202302443

Multiply exo-Methylated Corannulenes

Chemistry. 2023 Sep 15;29(52):e202302443. doi: 10.1002/chem.202302443. Epub 2023 Aug 16.

Authors

Kazuhira Miwa¹, Shinobu Aoyagi¹, Toru Amaya¹, Takahiro Sasamori², Shogo Morisako², Takashi Kurogi³, Hideki Yorimitsu³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Information and Basic Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, 467-8501, Japan.
² Division of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Sciences (TREMS), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, 305-8571, Japan.
³ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.

PMID: 37712387
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302443

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are Shinobu Aoyagi (Nagoya City University), Takahiro Sasamori (University of Tsukuba), and Hideki Yorimitsu (Kyoto University). The image depicts multiply exo-methylated corannulenes (flowers) synthesized from corannulene (central large flower) by the reduction with sodium (soil) to form anionic corannulenes and the subsequent methylation with reduction-resistant dimethyl sulfate (butterflies). Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202301557.