A phthalocyanine-based porous organic polymer for a lithium-ion battery anode.

Porous organic polymers (POPs) are a novel class of polymeric materials with high flexibility and designability for building structures. Herein, a phthalocyanine-based porous organic polymer (PcPOP) was constructed on copper foil from HPc(ethynyl) [Pc(ethynyl) = 2(3),9(10),16(17),23(24)-tetra(ethynyl)phthalocyanine] by the coupling reaction. Benefiting from the uniformly distributed electron-rich nitrogen atoms in the Pc structure and the sp-hybridized carbons in the acetylenic linkage, Li intercalation in the porous organic polymer would be improved and stabilized.

Highly enantioselective synthesis of 2,3-dihydro-1H-imidazo[2,1-a]isoindol-5(9bH)-ones via catalytic asymmetric intramolecular cascade imidization-nucleophilic addition-lactamization.

Highly enantioselective catalytic asymmetric intramolecular cascade imidization-nucleophilic addition-lactamization of N(1)-alkylethane-1,2-diamine with methyl 2-formylbenzoate catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid represents the first efficient method for the preparation of medicinally interesting chiral 2,3-dihydro-1H-imidazo[2,1-a]isoindol-5(9bH)-ones with high yields and excellent enantioselectivities. This strategy has been shown to be quite general toward various methyl 2-formylbenzoates.

Enantioselective synthesis of axially chiral multifunctionalized biaryls via asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura coupling.

Substituted 2-formylarylboronic acids were successfully employed as substrates for asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura coupling. By virtue of the coupling with dialkoxyphosphinyl substituted naphthyl bromides and 2-nitronaphthalen-1-yl triflouromethanesulfonate, a series of novel multifunctionalized axially chiral biaryls were prepared in 53-97% yields with up to 97% ee using palladium-Cy-MOP as the catalyst. The methodology provides a highly efficient and practical strategy for the synthesis of novel multifunctionalized axially chiral biaryls.