Sun Yue, Zhou Yan, Bai Wei, Li Yang, Wang Yilun
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning 116024, P. R. China.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi University for Nationalities, 188 Daxue East Road, Nanning, Guangxi 530006, P. R. China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jan 4;58(3):435-438. doi: 10.1039/d1cc05855j.
Metallaaromatics show a diversity of aromaticity. In this work, we report the synthesis and structural characterization of the first rhena-phenalene complexes. In addition to the Hückel aromaticity and σ-aromaticity, pseudo π anti-aromaticity is observed. DFT computations show that this anti-aromaticity (paramagnetic properties) is induced by the fused aromatic naphthyl ring.
