Highly Functionalized Dimeric Tetraethynylethenes and Expanded Radialenes: Strong Evidence for Macrocyclic Cross-Conjugation
摘要:
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.
Donor-Substituted Cyanoethynylethenes: π-Conjugation and Band-Gap Tuning in Strong Charge-Transfer Chromophores
作者:Nicolle N. P. Moonen、William C. Pomerantz、Robin Gist、Corinne Boudon、Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht、Tsuyoshi Kawai、Atsushi Kishioka、Maurice Gross、Masahiro Irie、François Diederich
DOI:10.1002/chem.200500082
日期:2005.5.20
combination of 13C NMR spectroscopic and electrochemistry measurements. Donor-substituted CEEs display strong intramolecularcharge-transfer (CT) character, resulting in intense, bathochromically shifted CT bands in the UV/Vis spectrum. Their structural diversity establishes them as suitable models for the study of pi-conjugation and band gap tuning in strong charge-transfer chromophores. The extent of pi-conjugation
合成了一系列广泛的甲硅烷基保护的氰基乙炔(CEE)和N,N-二甲基苯胺基供体取代的CEE。通过选择性的甲硅烷基脱保护和随后的氧化炔键偶联,可以构建更多的发色团。通过13 C NMR光谱学和电化学测量的结合揭示了CEE的强电子接受性质。供体取代的CEE表现出很强的分子内电荷转移(CT)特性,导致在UV / Vis光谱中出现强烈的红移的CT带。它们的结构多样性使它们成为研究强电荷转移生色团的π共轭和能带隙调谐的合适模型。通过结合基态技术研究了供体取代的CEE中pi共轭的程度,例如X射线晶体学,电化学,B3 LYP计算和NMR光谱学。将这些基态结果与在UV / Vis光谱中观察到的特征进行比较后发现,与预期相反,更广泛的pi共轭可导致具有强供体和受体部分的分子带隙更大。
Donor-Acceptor-Functionalized Tetraethynylethenes with Nitrothienyl Substituents: Structure-Property Relationships
作者:Rik R. Tykwinski、Anouk Hilger、François Diederich、Hans Peter Lüthi、Paul Seiler、Volker Gramlich、Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht、Corinne Boudon、Maurice Gross
Tetraethynylethenes (TEEs) functionalized with donor (4-(dimethylamino)phenyl) and acceptor (5-nitro-2-thienyl) groups were prepared by Pd-0-catalyzed Sonogashira cross-coupling reactions (Schemes 1-6). The physical properties of these novel chromophores were examined and compared with those of analogous systems containing 4-nitrophenyl instead of 5-nitro-2-thienyl acceptor groups. X-Ray crystal-structure analyses showed the pi-conjugated frameworks of 2, 11, and 13, including the TEE core and all aryl moieties, to be nearly perfectly planar (Figs. 1, 3, and 4). Ln contrast, one 4-(dimethylamino)phenyl group in 10 is rotated almost 90 degrees out of the molecular plane, presumably due to crystal-packing effects (Fig. 2). The analysis of bond lengths and bond angles revealed little, if any, evidence of intramolecular ground-state donor-acceptor interactions. The electrochemical behavior of nitrothienyl-substituted TEEs is similar to that of the corresponding nitrophenyl-functionalized derivatives (Table 3). The nitrothienyl groups were reduced at -1.23 V (vs. the ferrocene/ferricinium couple, Fc/Fc(+)), regardless of the degree or pattern of other substitutions. For nonsymmetrical TEE 13, the reduction of the nitrothienyl group at - 1.23 V is followed by a reduction of the nitrophenyl group at - 1.40 V, a potential typical for the reduction of other nitrophenyl-substituted TEEs, such as 17-20. UV/VIS Spectroscopy showed a consistently lower-energy absorption cutoff for nitrothienyl derivatives compared with the analogous nitrophenyl-substituted TEEs that confirms a lowering of the HOMO-LUMO gap as a result of nitrothiophene substitution (Figs. 5 and 6). A comparison of the tetrakis-arylated TEEs 11, 13, and 20 clearly showed a steady bathochromic shift of the longest-wavelength absorption maximum and the end-absorption upon sequential replacement of nitrophenyl by nitrothienyl groups. Quantum-chemical computations were performed to explain a number of complex features of the electronic absorption spectra. All empirical features of relevance in the experimental UV/VIS spectra for 2, 5, 6, and 17-19 were correctly reproduced by computation (Tables 4 and 5). The combination of theory and experiment was found to be very useful to explain the particular acceptor properties of the 5-nitro-2-thienyl group.