@article{af9fa54226bf4e1f86e52f38aed429f2,
title = "Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed C-H/N-H Alkyne Annulation of Nonsymmetric 2-Aryl (Benz)imidazole Derivatives: Photophysical and Mechanistic Insights",
abstract = "Rhodium(III) catalysis enabled C-H/N-H alkyne annulation of nonsymmetric imidazole derivatives. This study encompasses the synthesis of imidazoles from a naturally occurring quinoidal compound and their use for the preparation of rigid π-extended imidazole derivatives with outstanding fluorescence. Our study also brings to light the photophysical aspects and the mechanism of the reaction studied via computational calculations. This method provided an efficient and versatile tool for the synthesis of fluorescent compounds with a wide range of chemical and biological applications.",
author = "Dias, {Gleiston G.} and Paz, {Esther R.S.} and Kadooca, {Juliana Y.} and Sabino, {Ad{\~a}o A.} and Cury, {Luiz A.} and Kohei Torikai and {De Simone}, {Carlos A.} and Felipe Fantuzzi and {Da Silva J{\'u}nior}, {Eufr{\^a}nio N.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was funded by grants from CNPq (PQ 305741/2017-9), FAPEMIG (PPM-00638-16 and PPM-00635-18), CAPES and INCT-Cat{\'a}lise/CNPq/FAPESC. E.N.d.S.J. thanks the Return Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the Royal Society of Chemistry for the research fund grant (R19-9781). F.F. acknowledges CAPES and AvH for a Capes-Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship and JMU W{\"u}rzburg for HPC resources. C.A.d.S. would like to thank the Institute of Physics of the University of S{\~a}o Paulo (S{\~a}o Carlos). K.T. thanks the Tokyo Biochemical Research Foundation (Japan) for the travel grant 2018 to Brazil, which enabled to initiate his collaboration with E.N.d.S.J. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 American Chemical Society.",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1021/acs.joc.0c02054",
language = "English",
volume = "86",
pages = "264--278",
journal = "Journal of Organic Chemistry",
issn = "0022-3263",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "1",
}