Volume 88, Issue 6 pp. 1199-1207
Research Article

Use of Tröger's Base as a Scaffold for New Chiral Molecular Tweezers: Synthesis of Trimeric, Fused Tröger's Bases

Thierry Mas

Thierry Mas

Departamento de Química Orgánica I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES-28040 Madrid

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Carmen Pardo

Carmen Pardo

Departamento de Química Orgánica I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES-28040 Madrid

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José Elguero

José Elguero

Instituto de Química Médica, Centro de Química Orgánica ‘Manuel Lora-Tamayo’, Juan de la Cierva 3, ES-28006 Madrid

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First published: 21 June 2005
Citations: 23

Some preliminary results were described in T. Mas, C. Pardo, J. Elguero, Mendeleev Commun., 2004, 235.

Abstract

Four novel molecular tweezers, 69, have been synthesized having, for the first time, three fused Tröger's bases. The compounds differ in the relative configuration of the three fused methylene bridges and have been unambiguously characterized by NMR.

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