%0 Journal Article %A Feng, Xing %A Tomiyasu, Hirotsugu %A Hu, Jian-Yong %A Wei, Xian-Fu %A Redshaw, Carl %A Elsegood, Mark %A Horsburgh, Lynne %A Teat, Simon J. %A Yamato, Takehiko %D 2015 %T Regio-selective substitution at the 1,3- and 6,8-positions of pyrene for the construction of small dipolar molecules %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Regio-selective_substitution_at_the_1_3-_and_6_8-positions_of_pyrene_for_the_construction_of_small_dipolar_molecules/9389903 %2 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/17003315 %K untagged %K Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified %K Organic Chemistry %X This article presents a novel asymmetrical functionalization strategy for the construction of dipolar molecules via efficient regioselective functionalization along the Z-axis of pyrene at both the 1,3- and 6,8-positions. Three asymmetrically substituted 1,3-diphenyl-6,8-R-disubsituted pyrenes were fully characterized by X-ray crystallography, photophysical properties, electrochemistry, and density functional theory calculations. %I Loughborough University