Synthesis, optical and electrochemical properties of substituted 2-cinnamoyl-1, 3-indandione O-methyl ethers
摘要:
Seven new 2-cinnamoyl-1,3-indandione (2CID) O-methyl ethers with different substituents (R = -H, -CH3, -OCH3, -N(C6H5)(2), -N(CH2CH2CN)(2), julolidyl, -N(CH3)(2)) in 4-position of the cinnamoyl moiety were synthesized. The methylation with dimethylsulfate occurred at the oxygen atom of the exocyclic enol group with high selectivity.The synthesized compounds were characterized by H-1, C-13 NMR, IR, UV-Vis and luminescence spectroscopy, their electrochemical properties were investigated by cyclic voltammetry. The obtained results indicates that introducing an electron donating substituents in the 4-position of cinnamoyl moiety facilitates electrochemical oxidation, remarkably shifts absorption and emission bands to longer wavelengths, simultaneously increases extinction coefficient (epsilon). O-methyl ethers with strong electron donating groups (R = -N(C6H5)(2), -N(CH2CH2CN)(2), julolidyl, -N(CH3)(2)) in molecule are characterized by luminescence with maximum in range from 547 to 647 nm and absolute photoluminescence quantum yields from 0.02 to 0.32. Quantum yield (QY) of chromophore containing julolidyl fragment is solvent dependent. It was 0.32 in chloroform and decreased in other polar (ethanol, acetone) solvents. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A series of six 2-acyl-1,3-indandione derivatives is studied by means of experimental (single crystal X-ray diffraction, NMR, electron absorption and emission spectroscopy) and theoretical methods (HF, DFT and TD-DFT) All possible tautomers and rotamers are described quantum-chemically on the basis of their structure, energy and optical properties. Although the heterocyclic substituent may easily rotate about a C-C bond, according to the calculated energies, the conformation in the most stable gas-phase optimized structures is the same as in the crystalline form. These results suggest that the intermolecular interactions are very weak compared to the intramolecular ones, like strong intramolecular hydrogen bonding and pi-electron delocalization. Therefore, a good account of the experimental results was obtained theoretically by considering only the conformational modes of the isolated molecules in ground and excited states. The experimentally observed spectra of the studied series of compounds are characterized by very strong absorption in the visible region and weak fluorescence showing moderate to strong Stokes shift (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.