"Shaun the Alcohol": Molecular Design Brings a Cartoon Character Alive
Keywords:
molecular design, Shaun the Ether, cyclization, Corey-Chaykovsky reactionAbstract
Molecular design is a crucial and interesting issue in Organic Chemistry governing both novel molecular and development of new synthesis route. In this work, we successfully brought a lovely comic character “Shaun the Sheep” into reality through molecular design. This novel molecular, which we named “Shaun the Alcohol”, has a cycloheptane “body”, an ethylene oxide “head”, four methyl “feet” and an oxhydryl “tail”. With a special macrocyclic, cyclic ether and branched structure, “Shaun the Alcohol” is expected to become an important reaction intermediate.
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