A Silicon-Based Approach to Oligoarenes by Iterative Cross-Coupling Reactions of Halogenated Organo[(2-hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes
摘要:
Highly efficient synthesis of silyl-substituted oligoarenes with defined structures is achieved by an iterative cross-coupling reaction and deprotection sequence using organo[(2-hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes. The excellent stability of the tetraorganosilicon compounds as well as mild and divergent conditions for cross-coupling and deprotection steps allows preparation of highly conjugated oligoarenylsilanes such as unsymmetrically disilylated quinquethiophenes.
Synthesis of Biaryls and Oligoarenes Using Aryl[2-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes
作者:Jinshui Chen、Masaaki Tanaka、Akhila K. Sahoo、Masahide Takeda、Akira Yada、Yoshiaki Nakao、Tamejiro Hiyama
DOI:10.1246/bcsj.20090325
日期:2010.5.15
Through intramolecular activation, highly stable aryl[2-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes can selectively transfer their aryl groups to effect a cross-coupling reaction with various aryl bromides and chlorides in the presence of a weak non-fluoride base and a palladium/copper catalyst. This reaction tolerates a wide range of functional groups, producing the corresponding functionalized biaryls in high yields with excellent chemoselectivity. Newly disclosed reaction conditions allow the recovery of a cyclic silyl ether in modest-to-good yields and reuse for the synthesis of the arylsilanes. The introduction of two isopropyl groups on the silicon center instead of methyl groups improves the stability and allows quantitative recovery of the silicon residue. Finally, aryl halides having an O-protected [2-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilyl group cross-couple with the arylsilane reagents to give silyl-functionalized biaryls. Upon deprotection, the biaryls further react with the silylated electrophiles. The iterative cross-coupling–deprotection sequences allow rapid assembly of silylated oligoarenes. Syntheses of di- and trisilyloligoarenes are also achieved by use of orthogonal O-protecting groups.
Four novel organic dyes including three based on dibenzosilole (YS01â03) and one based on fluorene (YS04) were synthesized, and their photophysical properties and dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) performances were characterized. The silicon-containing dibenzosilole-based dyes (YS01â03) were superior to the carbon analogue fluorene-based dye YS04 in incident-photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE), and total solar-to-electric conversion efficiency (η), with YS03, which has the bulkiest and most branched electron donor group, achieving the highest η of 5.07% compared to 2.88% of YS04. To better understand how silicon influences the excited state oxidation potentials (S+/*) and absorption maxima (λmax), the equilibrium molecular geometries of dyes YS01â04 were calculated using density functional theory (DFT) utilizing B3LYP energy functional and DGDZVP basis set. It was shown that the torsion angles (θ1 and θ2) across the biphenyl linkages of dyes containing silicon (YS01â03) were less twisted than that of the silicon-free dye (YS04), which enhanced the ÏâÏ* overlap, and that translated into photocurrent enhancements in the silicon-containing dyes YS01â03. Moreover, the vertical electronic excitations and S+/* of dyes YS01â04 were studied using different long-range corrected time-dependent DFT methods, including CAM-B3LYP, LC-BLYP, WB97XD, and LC-wPBE at the basis set level DGDZVP. Excellent agreement between the calculated, using CAM-B3LYP/DGDZVP, and experimental results was found.
Highly efficient synthesis of silyl-substituted oligoarenes with defined structures is achieved by an iterative cross-coupling reaction and deprotection sequence using organo[(2-hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes. The excellent stability of the tetraorganosilicon compounds as well as mild and divergent conditions for cross-coupling and deprotection steps allows preparation of highly conjugated oligoarenylsilanes such as unsymmetrically disilylated quinquethiophenes.