Kritchasorn KantarodThanapat WorakulDarunee SoorukramChutima KuhakarnVichai ReutrakulPanida SurawatanawongWorawat WattanathanaPawaret LeowanawatKasetsart UniversityMahidol University2022-08-042022-08-042021-02-07Organic Chemistry Frontiers. Vol.8, No.3 (2021), 522-53020524129205241102-s2.0-85100736380https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/76621A novel strategy is developed for the synthesis of dibenzopleiadiene-embedded polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from 1,8-naphthalic anhydride derivatives and cyclic diaryliodonium salts through a palladium-catalyzed cascade [4 + 3] decarbonylative/decarboxylative annulation. The mechanism of the reaction is proposed and the molecular structure, photophysical properties, and frontier molecular orbitals of diverse dibenzopleiadiene-embedded polyaromatics are elucidated by X-ray crystallography, UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, and DFT calculations.Mahidol UniversityChemistryArticleSCOPUS10.1039/d0qo00942c