Yang Jye-Shane, Yan Jyu-Lun, Jin Ying-Xue, Sun Wei-Ting, Yang Ming-Che
Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 10617.
Org Lett. 2009 Mar 19;11(6):1429-32. doi: 10.1021/ol900127m.
The synthesis of central-ring halogenated pentiptycene phenols 12-14 and dihalogenated pentiptycenes 15-17 is reported. Their utilities as building blocks for preparing new pentiptycene-derived pi-conjugated systems through the Sonogashira, Heck, and Suzuki reactions are also demonstrated.