Donor-Acceptor-Functionalized Tetraethynylethenes with Nitrothienyl Substituents: Structure-Property Relationships
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Abstract
Tetraethynylethenes (TEEs) functionalized with donor (4-(dimethylamino)phenyl) and acceptor (5-nitro-2-thienyl) groups were prepared by Pd0-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 π-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). In contrast, one 4-(dimethylamino)phenyl group in 10 is rotated almost 90° 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.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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