Teaching old dogs new tricks : transition metal-catalysed reactions for generation of rigid cubane and designer porphyrin scaffolds

Abstract

The aim of this work was to use Pd-catalysis in the pursuit of novel, synthetically interesting, structural scaffolds based around either the rigid cubane framework or the optically active porphyrinoid core. In both cases, focus was on the application of the most modern chemical techniques to historically under-exploited or synthetically inaccessible organic scaffolds.