DOI

  • Marcin Kwit
  • Agnieszka Plutecka
  • Urszula Rychlewska
  • Jacek Gawroński
  • Alexander F. Khlebnikov
  • Sergei I. Kozhushkov
  • Karsten Rauch
  • Armin De Meijere

Aliphatic dialdehydes of rigid structures having a cyclohexane, a bicyclo[2.2.2]octane or a [7]triangulane skeleton, have been condensed with enantiomerically pure trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane to give [3 + 3] or [2 + 2] macrocyclization products. Unlike acyclic aliphatic imines, these macrocyclic oligoimines show enhanced stabilities and their structures in the crystals could be determined by X-ray diffraction analyses. The enantiomerically pure [7]triangulane dialdehyde showed remarkable diastereoselectivity in the condensation with the two enantiomers of trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane: only one of the enantiomers gave a [2 + 2] macrocyclization product. Circular dichroism measurements combined with computational analysis show that the lowest energy electronic transition in these cyclic oligoimines is of n-π* type.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8688-8695
Number of pages8
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume13
Issue number31
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Nov 2007

    Scopus subject areas

  • Chemistry(all)

    Research areas

  • Circular dichroism, Diastereoselectivity, Imines, Triangulanes, X-ray diffraction

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