Synthesis of Amphiphilic Phenylazophenyl Glycosides and a Study of Their Liquid Crystal Properties
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Several 4-(4'-N,N-didodecylaminophenylazo)phenyl 1,2-trans glycosides 5a-e with various carbohydrate heads (beta-D-gluco, beta-D-galacto, beta-lacto, beta-D-xylo, and alpha-D-manno) have been synthesized. The key step was the formation of phenyldiazonium tetrafluoroborates 2a-e from the per-O-acetylated 4-aminophenyl glycosides 1a-e. These salts were condensed with N,N-didoclecylaniline under phase transfer conditions and the per-O-acetylated 4-(4'-N,N-didodecylaminophenylazo)phenyl 1,2-trans glycosides 4a-e were fully de-O-acetylated by the Zemplen method. The self-organizing liquid crystal properties of the compounds were investigated by a variety of techniques, including polarized light microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction. All but one of the materials exhibited smectic A, lamellar phases. Remarkably, the glucose derivative exhibited a rectangular disordered columnar phase. This result has implications with respect to the induced curvature created by the recognition processes of the glucose headgroup relative to the other sugar moieties and to the prevalence of various glycolipids in cell membranes.
An efficient catalytic system for the alkylation of amines with either alcohols or amines undermildconditions has been developed, using cyclometallated iridium complexes as catalysts. The method has broad substrate scope, allowing for the synthesis of a diverse range of secondary and tertiary amines with good to excellent yields. By controlling the ratio of substrates, both mono‐ and bis‐alkylated
π-Expanded α,β-Unsaturated Ketones: Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Two-Photon-Induced Polymerization
作者:Rashid Nazir、Florent Bourquard、Evaldas Balčiūnas、Sabina Smoleń、David Gray、Nikolai V. Tkachenko、Maria Farsari、Daniel T. Gryko
DOI:10.1002/cphc.201402646
日期:2015.2.23
the periphery of D‐π‐A‐π‐D molecules resulted in dyes with excellent solubility. These ketones absorb light in the region 400–550 nm. Many of them display strong solvatochromism so that the emission ranges from 530–580 nm in toluene to the near‐IR region in benzonitrile. Ketones based on cyclobutanone as central moieties display very high fluorescence quantum yields in nonpolar solvents, which decrease
Posttreatment Technique for S<sub>N</sub>2 Alkylation of Aromatics with Alkyl Halides: Aiming toward Large-Scale Synthesis of Building Blocks for Soft π-Molecular Materials
作者:Ken Okamoto、Fengniu Lu、Takashi Nakanishi
DOI:10.1246/bcsj.20180075
日期:2018.8.15
byproduct olefin contaminants in products of SN2 alkylation reactions of aromatic compounds can be efficiently removed by sequential posttreatments with a base and a boron compound (sodium borohydride or 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane), followed by column chromatography on silica gel. These treatments permit large-scale purification of various alkylated aromatics, thereby assisting in the development of soft
Cruciform 9,10-distyryl-2,6-bis(p-dialkylamino-styryl)anthracene homologues exhibiting alkyl length-tunable piezochromic luminescence and heat-recovery temperature of ground states
作者:M. Zheng、D. T. Zhang、M. X. Sun、Y. P. Li、T. L. Liu、S. F. Xue、W. J. Yang
DOI:10.1039/c3tc32035a
日期:——
A series of 2,6-bis(p-dialkylaminostyryl)-9,10-distyrylanthracene (FCn) cruciforms with N-alkyl chains of different lengths have been synthesized, and their aggregation-enhanced fluorescence and piezochromic luminescence (PFC) behaviours are investigated. These 9,10-distyrylanthracene-containing cruciforms exhibit relatively low fluorescence quantum yields (Φ) in THF solution (Φ ≈ 10%) and moderate aggregation-enhanced emission in aqueous media (Φ ≈ 25%), but strong and chain length-dependent solid-state fluorescence emission. Grinding and pressing experiments indicate that they are all effective PFC materials in terms of mechanical stress-induced spectral shifts (ΔλPFC = 23–54 nm), moreover, the longer alkyl-containing FCn shows a larger ΔλPFC. Powder X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry measurements reveal that the transformation between the crystalline and amorphous states upon external stimuli is responsible for the reversible PFC behaviour. It is found that increasing the N-alkyl length could effectively decrease the cold-crystallization temperature of the ground states to render the PFC states with a tunable heat-recovering temperature, and ground FC10 and FC12 solids can recover spontaneously to their original states at room temperature.
benzobisthiazole moieties as the electron-accepting core has revealed the linear centrosymmetric benzo[1,2-d:4,5-d′]bisthiazole as the most promising building block for engineering chromophores displaying high two-photon absorption (TPA) in the near-IR region, as also confirmed experimentally. The ease of synthesis of quadrupolar derivatives thereof, combined with extraordinarly high TPA action cross sections