Novel spiro-fluorenes from tandem radical addition for liquid crystalline monodisperse conjugated oligomers
作者:Xiaojie Zhang、Laju Bu、Yao Qu、Lixiang Wang、Yanhou Geng、Fosong Wang
DOI:10.1039/b811830b
日期:——
3′-Nonafluorobutylmethyl-4′-methyl-spiro[cyclopentyl-9,1′]fluorenes were successfully synthesized via tandem radical-addition reactions between 9,9-diallylfluorenes and perfluorobutyl iodide in the presence of a radical initiator followed by reduction under mild conditions. Single crystal analysis indicates that two substituents at 3,4-positions of cyclopentane are in a maleinoid form. Accordingly, four oligo(fluorene-co-bithiophene)s with the same molecular length of ∼10 nm (7 fluorene units and 12 thiophene units) containing one to three novel spiro-fluorene units were synthesized. The introduction of the spiro-fluorene units results in noticeable enhancement of both glass transition temperature (Tg) and clearing point temperature (Tc) of the oligomers, but has little effect on their photophysical properties. Exchanging three 9,9-dioctylfluorene units with 3′-nonafluorobutylmethyl-4′-methyl-spiro[cyclopentyl-9,1′] fluorene units results in a 37 °C enhancement of Tg and a 61 °C enhancement of Tc. All these results indicate that this new spiro-fluorene unit is an attractive building block for liquid crystalline conjugated polymers/oligomers with both high Tg and Tc.
在一种自由基引发剂存在下,9,9-二烯丙基芴与全氟丁基碘化物发生串联自由基加成反应,然后在温和条件下进行还原,成功合成了 3′-Nonafluorobutylmethyl-4′-methyl-spiro[cyclopentyl-9,1′]fluorenes。单晶分析表明,环戊烷 3,4 位上的两个取代基呈马来酰胺形式。因此,我们合成了四种分子长度相同的低聚(芴-共噻吩)化合物(7 个芴单元和 12 个噻吩单元),它们都含有 1 至 3 个新型螺芴单元。引入螺芴单元可显著提高低聚物的玻璃化转变温度(Tg)和澄明点温度(Tc),但对其光物理性质影响不大。用 3′-全氟丁基甲基-4′-甲基螺[环戊基-9,1′]芴单元交换三个 9,9-二辛基芴单元,可使 Tg 提高 37 ℃,Tc 提高 61 ℃。所有这些结果表明,这种新的螺芴单元是一种具有高 Tg 和 Tc 的液晶共轭聚合物/高分子的有吸引力的构筑基块。