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Heteroditopic Rebek's Imide Directs the Reactivity of Homoditopic Olefins within Desolvated Quaternary Assemblies in the Solid State
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Heteroditopic Rebek's Imide Directs the Reactivity of Homoditopic Olefins within Desolvated Quaternary Assemblies in the Solid State

Dushyant B Varshney, Xiuchun Gao, Tomislav Friščić and Leonard R MacGillivray
Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), Vol.45(4), pp.646-650
01/16/2006
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200502294
PMID: 16365834

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Abstract

(Figure Presented) A rare single crystal to single crystal transformation leads to a [2+2] photodimerization of homoditopic olefins (trans-1,2-bis(4- pyridyl)ethylene) assembled and preorganized within hydrogen-bonded quaternary complexes by using Rebek's imide. In this way a rctt-tetrakis(4-pyridyl) cyclobutane (see picture) was obtained stereospecifically in up to 100% yield.
Receptors cycloaddition self-assembly solid-state reactions topochemistry

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