Date of Award
2005
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Colby Access Only)
Department
Colby College. Chemistry Dept.
Advisor(s)
Dasan M. Thamattoor
Abstract
This thesis reports a synthetic approach to a variety of macrocycles comprised of anthracene, phenylene, and ethynylene subunits. Most examples have ethynylene rods spacing the aromatic groups and others are spaced solely by aromatic panels. These purely hydrocarbon compounds exhibit interesting architectures with cavities governed by their connectivity to the central phenylene rings. The synthetic approach to these macrocycles utilizes a variety of cross-coupling procedures, most notably Suzuki and Sonagashira couplings, from readily synthesized dihalide and diethynyl anthracene precursors.
Keywords
Macrocyclic compounds -- Synthesis, Synthesis
Recommended Citation
Newhouse, Timothy, "Synthetic approaches to rigid "rod-and-panel" macrocycles" (2005). Honors Theses. Paper 412.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/412
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