Linearly Polymerized Benzene Arrays As Intermediates, Tracing Pathways to Carbon Nanothreads

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• 作者：Bo Chen ; Roald Hoffmann ; N. W. Ashcroft ; John Badding ; Enshi Xu ; Vincent Crespi
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 18, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：137
• 期：45
• 页码：14373-14386
• 全文大小：939K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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How might fully saturated benzene polymers of composition [(CH)₆]_n form under high pressure? In the first approach to answering this question, we examine the stepwise increase in saturation of a one-dimensional stack of benzene molecules by enumerating the partially saturated polymer intermediates, subject to constraints of unit cell size and energy. Defining the number of four-coordinate carbon atoms per benzene formula unit as the degree of saturation, a set of isomers for degree-two and degree-four polymers can be generated by either thinking of the propagation of partially saturated building blocks or by considering a sequence of cycloadditions. There is also one 4 + 2 reaction sequence that jumps directly from a benzene stack to a degree-four polymer. The set of degree-two polymers provides several useful signposts toward achieving full saturation: chiral versus achiral building blocks, certain forms of conformational freedom, and also dead ends to further saturation. These insights allow us to generate a larger set of degree-four polymers and enumerate the many pathways that lead from benzene stacks to completely saturated carbon nanothreads.