Synthetic Attempts towards ‘Aromatic’ Nonafulvenes

According to their spectroscopic behavior, four classes of nonafulvenes may be distinguished, but, so far, only three classes have been identified. Type-A nonafulvenes (including parent 1a) are typically olefinic molecules with strongly alternating bond lengths and a nonplanar nine-membered ring. Type-B nonafulvenes are characterized by four pairs of equivalent ring H-atoms and ring C-atoms. Spectra of both Type-A and Type-B nonafulvenes are not dependent on temperature and solvent polarity. However, spectra of Type-C nonafulvenes (including prototype 1d with R1 = R2 = NMe2) are strongly influenced by temperature and solvent polarity due to an equilibrium 1⇄1± between the nonpolar olefinic 1 and dipolar planarized 1±. So far, Type-D nonafulvenes occurring exclusively in the dipolar form 1± were unknown. Synthetic attempts towards nonafulvenes of Type D are described and problems encountered in nonafulvene syntheses are discussed. Several new cyclononatetraenes and four new nonafulvenes (or nonafulvalenes) 31, 1n, 3, and 5 have been synthesized. Spectroscopic evidence shows that 11,12-bis(diethylamino)nonatriafulvalene 5 is the first Type-D nonafulvene.

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