
%0 Journal Article
%A Warrener, Ronald N. 
%A Margetic, Davor 
%A Sun, Guangxing 
%A Russell, Richard A. 
%T Position-Addressable Nano-Scaffolds. I. The Preparation of <emph type="2">N</emph>,<emph type="2">O</emph>-, <emph type="2">N</emph>,<emph type="2">C</emph>- and <emph type="2">N</emph>,<emph type="2">N</emph>-Bridged Sesquinorbornadiene Succinimides as Compact, Highly Functionalized Addressable Building Blocks
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 2003/04/24
%V 56
%N 4
%P 263-267
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH02218
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH02218 
%X Succinimide-functionalized N,O-, N,C-, and N,N-bridged benzo[2]polynorbornanes (benzosesquinorbornadienes) are reported for the first time and are prepared by the cycloaddition of either five-membered cyclic 1,3-dienes onto N-substituted benzo-7-azanorbornadienomaleimides or N-substituted isoindoles onto the appropriate norbornadienomaleimides. These products contain an end-fused norbornene (or a 7-substituted relative) and have been designed to act as alkene BLOCKs for the production of nano-scaffolds with up to six addressable sites supplied by each norbornene unit. The N-bridges in these BLOCKs (and their coupled products) allow N-substituent mobility by invertomerization of the sp3 nitrogen whereas the N-substituents on the succinimides are attached to an sp2 nitrogen atom and remain static. Preferred invertomer geometry can be determined using molecular modelling. 
