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A Facile Palladium-Mediated Contractions of Benzene to<br />

Cyclopentadiene: Transformations of Palladium(II) p-Benziporphyrin<br />

Bartosz Szyszko, Lechosław Latos-Grażyński and Ludmiła Szterenberg<br />

Department od Chemistry<br />

University of Wrocław<br />

14 F. Joliot-Curie St., 50-383 Wrocław, Poland<br />

Palladium(II) p-benziporphyrin provides the unique macrocyclic vessel to afford the<br />

contraction of benzene to cyclopentadiene embedded in the first instance of 21carbaporphyrin<br />

complexes. Addition of palladium(II) and a hydroxide ion to a C–C<br />

double bond, β elimination, and competing cheletropic extrusion of carbon oxide and<br />

1,2-hydride shift reactions lead to the contraction of p-phenylene to form a<br />

cyclopentadiene unit. This reaction results in the formation of a 21-carbaporphyrin from<br />

a palladium(II) p-benziporphyrin. In the case of chloropalladium 1,4-naphthiporphyrin<br />

similar reactivity pattern allowed to obtain 21-benzocarbaporphyrin on the course of<br />

naphthalene to isoindene contraction.

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