Soft scorpionate anions as platforms for novel heterocycles.
Soft scorpionates have thus far been seen mainly as a family of ligands. Their chemistry is extended here to the production of novel cationic macrocycles using dihaloalkanes. By replacing the dihaloalkanes with mild oxidising agents (NO(+), I2) we obtain two unique polycyclic heterocycles. The mechanism which leads to the formation of these polycyclic heterocycles is investigated using ab initio DFT calculations.
WestCHEM Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral St., Glasgow G1 1XL (UK).
Rajeev
R
Rajasekharan-Nair
Annemarie
A
Marckwordt
Samuel T
ST
Lutta
Matthias
M
Schwalbe
Anne
A
Biernat
David R
DR
Armstrong
Allan J B
AJ
Watson
Alan R
AR
Kennedy
John
J
Reglinski
Mark D
MD
Spicer
alkylation; iodine; nitrosation; ring closure; soft scorpionates