摘要:
We have synthesized and thoroughly characterized two representative ladder-type acetylene-bridged perylenediimide dimers bearing long alkyl chain solubilizing groups, bis[1-ethynyl-N,N'-bis (1-hexylheptyl)-perylene-3,4:9,10-tetra-carboxylic diimide] ([PDICC](2), 1) and 1,1'-ethynyl-bis[N,N'-bis(1-hexylheptyl)-perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide] ([PDI](2)CC, 2). In these dimeric PDI molecules, NMR-based structural characterization became nontrivial because severe H-1 spectral broadening and greater than expected numbers of observed C-13 resonances substantially complicated the interpretation of traditional 1-D spectra. However, rational two-dimensional NMR approaches based on both homo- and heteronuclear couplings (H-1-H-1 COSY; H-1-C-13 HSQC), in conjunction with high-level structural DFT calculations (GIAO/B3LYP/6-31G(d,p)/PCM, chloroform), were readily applied to these structures, producing well-defined analytical characterization, and the associated methodology is described in detail. Furthermore, on the basis of dynamic NMR experiments, both 1 and 2 were found to exist in a perylene-centered conformational dynamic equilibrium (Delta G double dagger = 13-17 kcal/mol), which primarily caused the observed ambiguities in conventional 1-D spectra.