Considerable progess has been made in recent years in chemical functionalization of fullerene molecules [see, for example: Taylor 93, and Diederich 96]. In some cases, the predominant reaction products are different from those obtained (using the same reactants) from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). One such example is the cycloaddition of o-benzyne to C60. It is well established that b...

The 351 nm photoelectron spectra of the negative ions of o-, m-, and p-benzyne (1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-dehydrobenzene, respectively) and their perdeuterated isotopomers have been obtained. The o-benzyne ions were generated by the reaction of benzene and benzene-d6 with O-, while the mand p-benzyne ions were prepared by the gas-phase reaction between the corresponding 3and 4-(trimethylsilyl)phenyl ...

We report the detection, for first time in space, of a new non-functionalised hydrocarbon cycle direction TMC-1: o -C 6 H 4 (ortho-benzyne). derive column density this (5.0 ± 1.0) × 10 11 cm −2 . The abundance species is around 30 times lower than that cyclopentadiene and indene. compare benzyne with other pure hydrocarbons, cycles or chains, find it could be formed from neutral-radical reactio...

A series of chromophores y1–y3 based on the same bis(N,N-diethyl)aniline donor and the tricyanofuran acceptor (TCF) linked together via the modified thiophene π-conjugation with different isolated groups have been synthesized and systematically investigated in this paper. Density functional theory (DFT) was used to calculate the HOMO–LUMO energy gaps and first-order hyperpolarizability (β) of t...

Total syntheses of yatakemycin, PDE-II, dictyodendrins, and heptaphylline are described. This article focuses on the formation of aryl carbon-nitrogen bonds by two methods: first by an aromatic amination reaction using a combination of CuI and CsOAc, and then by a benzyne-mediated one-pot cyclization-functionalization sequence. The aryl amination reaction shows a high functional group compatibi...

Diazines are electron deficient six-membered aromatic rings heterocycles which have successfully been employed in the design of a wide range push-pull chromophores for various applications field organic electronics and optoelectronics. For instance, some specifically designed to be inserted electroluminescent emission layer light emitting diodes (OLED). OLED technology has continuously evolved ...

The synthesis of 2,4,6-triphenylphosphinine has been revisited and a general protocol for the preparation of such low-coordinate phosphorus compounds in good to excellent yields could be established. This allows to investigate several aspects of the chemistry of 2,4,6-triarylphosphinine, such as the reaction with in situ generated benzyne to give 2,4,6-triphenylphosphabarrelene. The correspondi...

The statistical independence between the distributions of different chromophores in tissue has previously been used for linear unmixing with independent component analysis (ICA). In this study, we propose exploiting this statistical property in a nonlinear model-based inversion method. The aim is to reduce the sensitivity of the inversion scheme to errors in the modelling of the fluence, and he...