title: Insertion of carboryne into aromatic rings: formation of cyclooctatetraenocarboranes.
abstract: 1-Iodo-2-lithiocarborane is an efficient precursor to carboryne. It can react with arenes to give different types of dearomatization products, [4+2] cycloaddition and/or cycloinsertion products, dependent upon the substituents on the aromatic rings. The formal cycloinsertion products, cyclooctatetraenocarboranes, is generated from the [2+2] cycloaddition intermediates followed by thermal [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement. This novel dearomatization of arenes with carboryne also serves as an important method for the synthesis of cyclooctatetraenocarboranes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Center of Novel Functional Molecules, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Sunewang R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zaozao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Zuowei
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie