Highly Functionalized Dimeric Tetraethynylethenes and Expanded Radialenes: Strong Evidence for Macrocyclic Cross-Conjugation
作者:Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen、Martin Schreiber、Yong Gu Baek、Paul Seiler、Steve Lecomte、Corinne Boudon、Rik R. Tykwinski、Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht、Volker Gramlich、Philip J. Skinner、Christian Bosshard、Peter Günter、Maurice Gross、François Diederich
DOI:10.1002/1521-3765(20010803)7:15<3263::aid-chem3263>3.0.co;2-3
日期:2001.8.3
A selection of dimeric tetra-ethynylethenes (TEEs) and perethynylated expanded radialenes, containing different donor/acceptor substitution patterns, have been prepared and fully characterized. The first X-ray crystal structure of an expanded [6]radialene, with twelve peripheral 3,5-di(tert-butyl)phenyl substituents, is presented. This macrocycle, the all-carbon core of which is isomeric with fullerene C-60, adopts a non-planar, "chair-like" conformation. Also a TEE dimer, carrying NN-dimethylaniline donor substituents, has been subjected to an X-ray crystallo graphic analysis. The electronic properties were studied by UV/Vis spectroscopy and electrochemistry, providing fundamental insight into mechanisms of pi -electron delocalization in the acyclic and macrocyclic chromophores. Donor or donor-acceptor-substituted dimeric TEE derivatives show very strong absorptions extending over the entire UV/Vis region; their longest wavelength absorption bands have high charge-transfer character. Macrocyclic cross-conjugation in the expanded radialenes becomes increasingly efficient with increasing donor-acceptor polarization. A dual, strongly solvent-polarity-dependent fluorescence was observed for a tetrakis(NN-dimethylaniline)-substituted dimeric TEE; this interesting emission behavior is explained by the twisted intramolecular charge-transfer (TICT) state model. Donor-substituted expanded radialenes display huge resonance-enhanced third-order nonlinear optical coefficients.