Propeller-shaped dynamic helicity was generated in a hexakis(phenylethynyl)benzene framework that preferred a particular sense to afford a strong CD signal, which was realized by the cooperative transmission of point chiralities upon complexation with a chiral guest through a threefold binding site presented by a syn-formed terephthalamide.

Molecules of the title compound, dimethyl N,N0-(1,4-benzenedicarboxamido)diacetate, C14H16N2O6, lie on inversion centres and are hydrogen bonded along a single direction that runs parallel to the crystallographic b axis. Glycine residues adopt a conformation which deviates slightly from that characteristic of the polyglycine II structure. An angle close to 27 is found between the planar amide g...

The hitherto unknown bis[quinazolin-4-one-2-yl]-m-phenylene (2d), and its 3-N-substituted derivatives were prepared from the corresponding bis[3,1-benzoxazin-4-one-2-yl]-m-phenylene (1) as precursor. The quinazolinone derivative 2d was converted into bis[quinazolin-4-thioxo-2-yl]-m-phenylene (3) via different routes, bis[4-chloroquinazolin-2-yl]-m-phenylene (8) and bis[4-hydrazinoquinazolin-2-y...

A dynamic combinatorial approach for the synthesis of arylene ethynylene macrocycles (AEMs) from linear polymers is described. By using readily available carbazolyl-ethynylene copolymers as starting materials we obtained a number of novel macrocycles that would be difficult to prepare by traditional methods.

The rectifying properties of α,ω-dithiol terminated oligo(phenylene ethynylene) molecules sandwiched between heterometallic electrodes, including the molecular length and side group effects, are theoretically investigated using the fully self-consistent nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory. The results show nonlinear variation with changes in molecule l...

The synthesis and electrochemical properties of novel block copolymers are reported. Three different norbornene derivatives having phenylene-thiophene, phenylene-bithiophene, and phenylene-furan structures were copolymerized with either norbornene or 7-oxanorbornene derivatives via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Block copolymers’ stabilities and solubilities could be improved by...

The phase transfer catalysed nucleophilic displacement of 1,3-bis(bromomethyl)benzene, 2-methoxy-5methyl-1,3-bis(bromomethyl)benzene (2) and 1,4-bis(bromomethyl)benzene with 2-mercaptoethanol gives the respective diols 3, 4 and 12 (80–85%), which undergo intermolecular cyclodehydrochlorination with thiodiglycolyl dichloride and pyridine-2,6-dicarbonyl dichloride?HCl to provide m-phenylene (7–10...

Amination of phenylene moieties in crystal-like mesoporous silica hybridized with phenylene is successfully achieved with close to 28% conversion of phenylene by a two-step chemical transformation process while preserving both the ordered mesostructure and crystal-like molecular scale periodicity of the parent material.