Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Pages: 6806-6810

Journal: European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volume number: 2021

Issue number: 48

ISSN: 1434-193X

Open access status: Hybrid

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202101366

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 

An easier path to organic white light emitters is accessible through the direct, meta-selective arylation of adamantane. The combination of AlCl₃ and t-BuBr aids this reaction, which occurs smoothly, inter alia, also with fluorobenzene, which had proven to be difficult in the past and opposes the expected regioselectivity. Indeed, the products generate white light when irradiated with a continuous wave (CW) laser diode with improved intensities over the parent system, tetraphenyladamantane.

New meta-substituted tetraaryl adamantane derivatives were synthesized through one-step Friedel-Crafts adamantylation by using AlCl3 in combination with t-butyl bromide. The products exhibit improved (over tetraphenyl adamantane) highly directional white-light emission upon irradiation with a continuous wave (CW) laser diode.

Harvard Citation style: Gowrisankar, S., Bernhardt, B., Becker, J. and Schreiner, P. (2021) Regioselective Synthesis of meta-Tetraaryl-Substituted Adamantane Derivatives and Evaluation of Their White Light Emission, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021(48), pp. 6806-6810. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202101366

APA Citation style: Gowrisankar, S., Bernhardt, B., Becker, J., & Schreiner, P. (2021). Regioselective Synthesis of meta-Tetraaryl-Substituted Adamantane Derivatives and Evaluation of Their White Light Emission. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2021(48), 6806-6810. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202101366