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Pure Appl. Chem., 2012, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 869-878

http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/PAC-CON-11-09-15

Published online 2012-03-01

Arylene–ethynylene macrocycles: Privileged shape-persistent building blocks for organic materials

Dustin E. Gross1, Ling Zang2 and Jeffrey S. Moore1*

1 Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA

Abstract: This report details the advances in synthetic strategies toward arylene–ethynylene macrocycles (AEMs). After a brief description of traditional methods, we summarize recent advances based on dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) whereby a highly active and functional group tolerant alkyne metathesis catalyst yields scalable quantities of AEMs under thermodynamic controlled reaction conditions.