Syntheses of Acetylenic Oligophenylene Macrocycles Based on a Novel Dewar Benzene Building Block Approach
作者:Masakazu Ohkita、Kohta Ando、Takanori Suzuki、Takashi Tsuji
DOI:10.1021/jo0002590
日期:2000.7.1
A general synthetic approach to strained p-phenylene-based acetylenic macrocycles is described. A key feature in this approach is exploitation of Dewar benzene as an angular p-phenylene synthon. Thus, 1,4-acetal-bridged 2,5-dichloro(Dewar benzene) 5, prepared in four steps from dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate and 1,2-dichloroethylene, is applied as such a building block in the syntheses of strained macrocycles 13 and anti-20. For the synthesis of 13, m-phenylene units are used as spacers and modified Eglington-Glaser coupling is applied for the macrocyclization step. For the synthesis of anti-20, on the other hand, o-phenylene units are used as spacers and Sonogashira coupling is applied for the macrocyclization step. Macrocycles 13 and anti-20 are characterized crystallographically? and their strained nature is reflected mainly in the deviation of the acetylene units from linearity; the C=C-C angles range from 168.7(3)degrees to 179.9(3)degrees in 13 and from 168.0(5)degrees to 171.4(4)degrees in anti-20, Macrocycle 13 shows unique conformational property, namely, the p-phenylene units arranged in parallel in the rectangular framework rotate freely about the long axes, as evidenced by the H-1 NMR studies. Macrocycle anti-20 exhibits a Stokes shift of 179 nm, which is exceptionally large for phenylacetylene macrocycles, presumably owing to the characteristic stacking structure.