Ring expansion of osmacyclopentadiene affords diverse six-membered osmaaromatics
Yue Zhao, Bingjie Fu, Yang Li, Di Liu, Wei Bai · 2025
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Yue Zhao and co-authors perform skeletal edits on a metal ring in a 2025 chemistry paper. Aromatic rings built around a heavy metal atom fascinate chemists, but making the six-membered versions, especially with different atoms inserted, lacked a general recipe.
Starting from a five-membered osmium ring, the team slipped a sixth atom, sulfur, selenium, nitrogen, or carbon, into the metal-carbon bond, yielding a family of fused osmaaromatics. Spectroscopy, crystal structures, and computation confirmed the products really are aromatic, and they drink in light across a broad spectrum. One insertion trick, many rings: the method generalizes metallaaromatic synthesis.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yue Zhao, Bingjie Fu, Yang Li, Di Liu, Wei Bai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |