Aromatic Metamorphosis of Dibenzothiophenes

摘要: In general, aromatic cores are stable owing to their resonance energies. Different from facile peripheral modifications of cores, transforming an core into a different skeleton is ambitious and has attracted only little attention as general synthetic method. This personal account shows our journey inventing transformations dibenzothiophenes triphenylenes, carbazoles, spirocyclic diarylfluorenes establishing ‘aromatic metamorphosis’ useful game-changing strategy in organic synthesis. 1 Introduction 2 Aromatic Metamorphosis 3 From Dibenzothiophenes Triphenylenes 4 Carbazoles 5 Spirocyclic Tetraarylmethanes 6 Conclusion