Abstract

[reaction: see text] A double Diels-Alder reaction of the formal syn-bis(dehydro)octafluoroparacyclophane with anthracene leads to formation of a novel cage compound that contains a highly pyramidal double bond. The measures of pyramidality of this double bond constitute what appear to be the highest combined values of psi and phi (34.3 degrees and 33.5 degrees, respectively) yet reported to have been determined by X-ray crystallography. This cage compound, although stable indefinitely as a crystalline compound in air, exhibits the high reactivity with both triplet and singlet O2 in solution that is characteristic of such highly pyramidal pi systems.

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