Acylation of Hexaphenylbenzene for the Synthesis of [5]Cumulenes
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Abstract
Abstract The Friedel‐Crafts acylation of hexaphenylbenzene is reported, and the reaction favorably provides the monoacylated products 1 a and 1 b . The resulting ketones 1 a and 1 b are used as precursors for the formation of [5]cumulenes, including 6 b in which the sterically demanding HPB moiety affords a diethynyl[5]cumulene that features significant stability (persistence) versus the analog 6 c which lacks the HPB endgroups. The unsymmetrical substitution pattern of the two most soluble derivatives 6 b and 6 c , allows for estimation of rotational barriers for diethynyl[5]cumulenes via VT NMR studies of cis‐trans isomerization. For both molecules, the barrier to rotation is ca. 15 kcal mol −1 , which is attenuated in comparison to other [5]cumulenes due to the presence of the ethynyl endgroups.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".