Synthesis of N-Heterocyclic Compounds: N-Doped Rubicene and Tetrabenzopentacene

Abstract

Carbon-based materials, such as acenes, fullerenes, and graphene nanoribbons, are viewed as the potential successors to silicon in the next generation of electronics. Although a number of methodologies provide access to these materials all-carbon variants, relatively fewer strategies readily furnish their nitrogen-doped analogues. Herein, we report the synthesis of nitrogen-containing rubicene and tetrabenzopentacene via selective Heck-type reactions.