Review demonstrates metal-catalyzed C-H activation of five-membered carbocycles efficiently yields functionalized azulenes, acenaphthylenes, and fulvenes, highlighting direct synthetic routes.
Azulene, acenaphthylene and fulvene derivatives exhibit important physical properties useful in materials chemistry as well as valuable biological properties. Since about two decades ago, the metal-catalyzed functionalization of such compounds, via C-H bond activation of their 5-membered carbocyclic ring, proved to be a very convenient method for the synthesis of a wide variety of azulene, acenaphthylene and fulvene derivatives. For such reactions, there is no need to prefunctionalize the 5-membered carbocyclic rings. In this review, the progress in the synthesis of azulene, acenaphthylene and fulvene derivatives via metal-catalyzed C-H bond activation of their 5-membered carbocyclic ring are summarized.
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