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Synthesis 1998; 1998(1): 78-82
DOI: 10.1055/s-1998-2001
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Synthetic Routes to an Asymmetric Redox-Active Molecular Box: Avoidance of Higher Order Macrocycles and Catenanes

Martin C. Grossel* , Darren G. Hamilton, Peter N. Horton, Sandra Neveu, Robert A. Parker, Paul S. Walker
  • *Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; Fax + 44(17 03)59 37 81; E-mail: mcg1@soton.ac.uk
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31 December 2000 (online)

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Whilst the synthesis of ferrocene-bridged molecular boxes is hampered by rotamer effects associated with the ferrocene unit, it is now shown that, with a degree of preorganisation, macrocyclisation can be an efficient and viable process for the synthesis of an asymmetric redox-active molecular box, without the expected formation of catenanes and higher order macrocycles.

macrocyclisation - 1,1′-disubstituted ferrocenes - redox-active molecular boxes

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