Jeyaraman Sankar, Shigeki Mori, Shohei Saito, Harapriya Rath, Masaaki Suzuki, Yasuhide Inokuma, Hiroshi Shinokubo, Kil Suk Kim, Zin Seok Yoon, Jae-Yoon Shin, Jong Min Lim, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Osamu Matsushita, Atsuya Muranaka, Nagao Kobayashi, Dongho Kim, Atsuhiro Osuka
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 130 41 13568 - 13579 2008年10月
[査読有り][通常論文] meso-Aryl-substituted [28]hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) have been examined by (1)H, (13)C, and (19)F NMR spectroscopies, UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. All of these data consistently indicate that [28]hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) in solution at 25 degrees C exist largely as an equilibrium among several rapidly interconverting twisted Mobius conformations with distinct aromaticities, with a small contribution from a planar rectangular conformation with antiaromatic character at slightly higher energy. In the solid state, [28]hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1) take either planar or Mobius-twisted conformations, depending upon the meso-aryl substituents and crystallization conditions, indicating a small energy difference between the two conformers. Importantly, when the temperature is decreased to -100 degrees C in THF, these rapid interconversions among Mobius conformations are frozen, allowing the detection of a single [28]hexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1) species having a Mobius conformation. Detailed analyses of the solid-state Mobius structures of compounds 2b, 2c, and 2f showed that singly twisted structures are achieved without serious strain and that cyclic pi-conjugation is well-preserved, as needed for exhibiting strong diatropic ring currents. Actually, the harmonic-oscillator model for aromaticity (HOMA) values of these structures are significantly large (0.85, 0.69, and 0.71, respectively), confirming the first demonstration of stable Mobius aromatic systems consisting of free-base expanded porphyrins without the assistance of metal coordination.