Abstract We report the regiocontrolled syntheses of ethene-bridged para-phenylene oligomers in three distinct classes by using Pt II-and Ru II-catalyzed aromatization. This synthetic approach has been developed based on twofold aromatization of the 1-aryl-2- alkynylbenzene functionality, which proceeds by distinct regioselectivity for platinum and ruthenium catalysts. Variable-temperature NMR spectra provide evidence that large ...
[Lemonnier, Jean-Francois; Guenee, Laure; Beuchat, Cesar; Wesolowski, Tomasz A.; Mukherjee, Prasun; Waldeck, David H.; Gogick, Kristy A.; Petoud, Stephane; Piguet, Claude Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011 , vol. 133, # 40 p. 16219 - 16234]