Coronene

Coronene (also known as superbenzene) is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) comprising six peri-fused benzene rings.[8] Its chemical formula is C
24H
12. It is a yellow material that dissolves in common solvents including benzene, toluene, and dichloromethane. Its solutions emit blue light fluorescence under UV light. It has been used as a solvent probe, similar to pyrene.

Coronene
Names
Preferred IUPAC name
Coronene[1]
Other names
[6]circulene
X1001757-9, superbenzene
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
658468
ChEBI
ChemSpider
ECHA InfoCard 100.005.348
EC Number
  • 205-881-7
286459
KEGG
UNII
Properties
C24H12
Molar mass 300.360 g·mol−1
Appearance white or pale yellow powder[2]
Density 1.371 g/cm3[3]
Melting point 437.3 °C (819.1 °F; 710.5 K) [3]
Boiling point 525 °C (977 °F; 798 K) [3]
0.14 μg/L[4]
Solubility Very soluble: benzene, toluene, hexane,[5]
Chloroform (1 mmol·L−1)[6] and ethers, sparingly soluble in ethanol.
-243.3·10−6 cm3/mol
Structure
Monoclinic
P21/n[7]
D6h
a = 10.02 Å, b = 4.67 Å, c = 15.60 Å
α = 90°, β = 106.7°, γ = 90°
2
0 D
Hazards
Main hazards flammable[2]
GHS pictograms
GHS Signal word Warning
GHS hazard statements
 H371
P260, P264, P270, P309+311, P405, P501
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Infobox references

The compound is of theoretical interest to organic chemists because of its aromaticity. It can be described by 20 resonance structures or by a set of three mobile Clar sextets. In the Clar sextet case, the most stable structure for coronene has only the three isolated outer sextets as fully aromatic although superaromaticity would still be possible when these sextets are able to migrate into the next ring.

Occurrence and synthesis
Carpathite

Coronene occurs naturally as the very rare mineral carpathite, which is characterized by flakes of pure coronene embedded in sedimentary rock. This mineral may be created from ancient hydrothermal vent activity.[9] In earlier times this mineral was also called karpatite or pendletonite.[10]

Coronene is produced in the petroleum-refining process of hydrocracking, where it can dimerize to a fifteen ring PAH, trivially named "dicoronylene" (formally named benzo[10,11]phenanthro[2',3',4',5',6':4,5,6,7]chryseno[1,2,3-bc]coronene or benzo[1,2,3-bc:4,5,6-b'c']dicoronene). Centimeter-long crystals can be grown from a supersaturated solution of the molecules in toluene (ca. 2.5 mg/ml), which is slowly cooled (ca. 0.04 K/min) from 328 K to 298 K over a period of 12 hours.[7]

Structure

Coronene is a planar circulene. It forms needle-like crystals with a monoclinic, herringbone-like structure. The most common polymorph is γ, but β form can also be produced in an applied magnetic field (ca. 1 Tesla)[7] or by phase transition from γ decreasing the temperature at 158 K[11].

  • Crystals of β and γ coronene under daylight (left) and UV light (right).[7]

Other uses

Coronene has been used in the synthesis of graphene. For example, coronene molecules evaporated onto a copper surface at 1000 degrees Celsius will form a graphene lattice which can then be transferred onto another substrate.[12]

See also

References
  1. Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book). Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry. 2014. p. 206. doi:10.1039/9781849733069-FP001. ISBN 978-0-85404-182-4.
  2. Coronene (EINECS NO. 205-881-7). guidechem.com
  3. Haynes, William M., ed. (2011). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (92nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 3.128. ISBN 1439855110.
  4. Mackay, D.; Shiu, W. Y. (1977). "Aqueous solubility of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons". Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. 22 (4): 399. doi:10.1021/je60075a012.
  5. Bertarelli, Chiara. Molecules for organic electronics: intermolecular interactions vs properties. Dipartimento di Chimica, Politecnico di Milano
  6. Wang, Chen; Wang, Jianlin; Wu, Na; Xu, Miao; Yang, Xiaomei; Lu, Yalin; Zang, Ling (2017). "Donor–acceptor single cocrystal of coronene and perylene diimide: molecular self-assembly and charge-transfer photoluminescence". RSC Adv. 7 (4): 2382–2387. doi:10.1039/C6RA25447K.
  7. Potticary, Jason; Terry, Lui R.; Bell, Christopher; Papanikolopoulos, Alexandros N.; Christianen, Peter C. M.; Engelkamp, Hans; Collins, Andrew M.; Fontanesi, Claudio; Kociok-Köhn, Gabriele; Crampin, Simon; Da Como, Enrico; Hall, Simon R. (2016). "An unforeseen polymorph of coronene by the application of magnetic fields during crystal growth". Nature Communications. 7: 11555. doi:10.1038/ncomms11555. PMC 4866376. PMID 27161600.
  8. Fetzer, J. C. (2000). The Chemistry and Analysis of the Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. New York: Wiley.
  9. Karpatite. luminousminerals.com
  10. Carpathite. mindat.org
  11. Salzillo, Tommaso; Giunchi, Andrea; Masino, Matteo; Bedoya-Martı́nez, Natalia; Della Valle, Raffaele Guido; Brillante, Aldo; Girlando, Alberto; Venuti, Elisabetta (2018). "An Alternative Strategy to Polymorph Recognition at Work: The Emblematic Case of Coronene". Crystal Growth & Design. 18 (9): 4869–4873. doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.8b00934.
  12. Wan, Xi; et al. (2013). "Enhanced Performance and Fermi-Level Estimation of Coronene-Derived Graphene Transistors on Self-Assembled Monolayer Modified Substrates in Large Areas". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. ACS Publications. 117 (9): 4800–4807. doi:10.1021/jp309549z.
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