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Halogen-Bond Mediated [2+2] Photodimerizations: À la Carte Access to Unsymmetrical Cyclobutanes in the Solid State
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Halogen-Bond Mediated [2+2] Photodimerizations: À la Carte Access to Unsymmetrical Cyclobutanes in the Solid State

Jay Quentin, Eric W Reinheimer and Leonard R MacGillivray
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), Vol.27(3), p.1048
02/03/2022
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27031048
PMCID: PMC8839528
PMID: 35164313
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https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27031048View
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Abstract

The ditopic halogen-bond (X-bond) donors 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene ( , , and , respectively) form binary cocrystals with the unsymmetrical ditopic X-bond acceptor -1-(2-pyridyl)-2-(4-pyridyl)ethylene ( ). The components of each cocrystal ( )·( ), ( )·( ), and ( )·( ) assemble via N···I X-bonds. For ( )·( ) and ( )·( ), the X-bond donor supports the C=C bonds of to undergo a topochemical [2+2] photodimerization in the solid state: UV-irradiation of each solid resulted in stereospecific, regiospecific, and quantitative photodimerization of to the corresponding head-to-tail ( ) or head-to-head ( ) cyclobutane photoproduct, respectively.
cocrystal cyclobutane photodimerization crystal engineering halogen bonding

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