Expanding the BN-embedded PAH family: 4a-aza-12a-borachrysene

Alberto Abengózar,‡ Isabel Valencia,‡ Guillermo G. Otárola, David Sucunza,* Patricia García-García, Adrián Pérez-Redondo, Francisco Mendicuti and Juan J. Vaquero*

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC09998K

Previously unknown 4a-aza-12a-borachrysene has been synthesized in only four steps. The reactions of this BN-embedded PAH with bromine and organolithium compounds proceed with complete regioselectivity, resulting in the formation of nine derivatives. One of these, a phenylalkynyl-substituted derivative, exhibits a remarkably high fluorescence quantum yield (ΦF = 0.68).