作者:Philipp Ott、Hans-Jürgen Hansen
DOI:10.1002/1522-2675(20010919)84:9<2670::aid-hlca2670>3.0.co;2-p
日期:2001.9.19
It is shown that the heptalene-4.5-dicarboxylates 5 react with their Me group at C(1) with N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal or other acetals of this type in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) to give the corresponding 1-[(E)-2-(N,N-dialkylamino)ethenyl]-substituted heptalene-4,5-dicarboxylates 8a-8e as well as 8k and 8i in good yields (Table 1). In a similar manner, the 1-[(E)-2-pyrrolidinoethenyl]-substituted heptalene-5-carboxylates 8f-h were synthesized from the corresponding heptalene-carboxylates 10-12, carrying a CHO, CN. or (E)-2-(methoxycarbonyl)ethenyl group at C(4) (Table 1). All new heptalenes with the pi -donor and pi -acceptor groups at C(1) and C(4), respectively, exhibit a strongly enhanced heptalene band I in the spectral region of 450-500 nm in MeCN (Table 7 and Figs. 4-7), whereby the specific position is dependent on the pi -donor quality of the N,N-dialkylamino substituent at C(2') and the pi -acceptor property of the group at C(4). The position of heptalene band I is also strongly solvent-dependent as is demonstrated in the case of heptalene 8i (Table 9). A good linear correlation with the CT band of 1-(diethylamino)-4-nitrobenzene or (E)-4-(dimethylamino)-beta -nitrostyrene (Figs. 11 and 12) characterizes the heptalene band I also as an electronic CT transition. Irradiation into this band of 8i leads, as observed in other cases (cf. [I I), to a double-bond shift in the heptalene moiety (--> 8'i: Figs. 8-10). On warming in solution, 8'i is converted quantitatively to 8i.