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SUBMITTER: Guo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5765533 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20171229 1
The synthesis of "rim-differentiated" C<sub>5</sub>-symmetric pillar[5]arenes, whose two rims are decorated with different chemical functionalities, has remained a challenging task. This is due to the inherent statistical nature of the cyclization of 1,4-disubstituted alkoxybenzenes with different substituents, which leads to four constitutional isomers with only 1/16th being rim-differentiated. Herein, we report a "preoriented" synthetic protocol based on FeCl<sub>3</sub>-catalyzed cyclization ...[more]