B19-: An Aromatic Wankel Motor
B19-: An Aromatic Wankel Motor
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201001275
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Merino, Gabriel
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作者:
Jimenez-Halla, J. Oscar C.;Islas, Rafael;Merino, Gabriel
Recently, Huang et al. found that the lowest energy form of B19 À (1) is a beautiful ring structure with two planar πaromatic systems nested inside one another.[1] The inner fragment (ring A) is a pentagonal six-atom group sharing two π electrons, surrounded by a peripheral layer of thirteen boron atoms (ring B), sharing further ten π electrons (Figure 1). Interestingly, both fragments individually satisfy the (4n+ 2) π Hückel aromaticity rule. In general, the structures of neutral and anionic clusters ranging from B3 to B20 adopt planar geometries rather than three-dimensional cluster structures, and in most cases are doubly aromatic.[2] Particularly, B8 2À, B9 À, B10, B11 À, B12, and B13+ boron clusters can be considered as all-boron analogues of benzene.[3–7] However, B19 À is different, even when concentric π systems have been reported in organic chemistry before, none has exactly this electronic configuration.In the last ten years, several boron wheels with maingroup elements [8–14] or transition-metal atoms [15–18] at the ring center have been proposed theoretically. In 2005, Erhardt et al. studied some aromatic boron wheels (C2B8, C3B9 3+, and C5B11+) with more than one carbon at the center (Figure 2).[19]