Fabien Durola

TL;DR: A versatile synthesis strategy has been developed to form a family of flexible yet strongly crowded substrates for multiple dehydrocyclizations to open an efficient access to large and sterically crowded polycyclic arenes.

TL;DR: Bi-isoquinoline can be used as a building block to prepare a new family of non-sterically hindering chelates, including a macrocyclic system; the endocyclic nature of the ligands has been confirmed by the X-ray structure of an octahedral tris-chelate iron(II) complex, which shows that the three chelate are easily accommodated in the coordination sphere of the metal in spite of their crescent shape.

TL;DR: The Scholl reaction with quinquephenyl derivatives has been shown to have an unexpectedly strong preference for forming twisted, helicene aromatic polycycles, instead of their flat counterparts, and this tendency will overcome even severe steric hindrance.

TL;DR: This Account primarily discusses the cyclic [4]rotaxanes incorporating porphyrins that the Strasbourg group has synthesized and studied during the past few years, and these rotaxanes behave as receptors for various ditopic guests.

TL;DR: An efficient quadruple end-functionalization reaction based on the copper(I)-catalyzed Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (“click” chemistry) affords the desired iron(II)-complexed two-string [3]rotaxane in excellent yield.