Affiliation:
1. 1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
2. 3Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
3. 4Chemical Research Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
Abstract
AbstractElectron-donating 1,1,4,4-tetraarylbutadiene is a representative electrochromic dye, and the same chromophore can be found in 9,10-bis(diarylmethylene)-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene (dibenzo-oQD) albeit in a fixed s-cis geometry. Unlike thermodynamically unstable 7,7,8,8-tetraaryl-o-quinodimethane, spontaneous electrocyclization is prohibited by dibenzo-annulation. Several derivatives of dibenzo-oQD were successfully generated despite highly strained geometry caused by steric hindrance between the bulky diarylmethylene units. Their precursors are phenanthrene-9,10-diyl bis(diarylmethylium) dyes (PDM2+) stabilized by four electron-donating alkoxy groups. The redox pairs of dibenzo-oQD/PDM2+ exhibit vivid change in color upon redox interconversion (electrochromism). Both dibenzo-oQD and PDM2+ adopt a helical conformation, whose configuration is unstable. When a chiral alkoxy substituent is attached on each of the aryl groups, the point chirality is successfully transmitted to helicity of PDM2+. Resulting diastereomeric biasing is the key for dibenzo-oQD/PDM2+ to exhibit the two-way-output response (e.g., UV–vis and CD). In addition, much more strained quinodimethane derivatives, 1,2-bis(diarylmethylene)acenaphthene and 1,16-diaryldibenzo[b,n]perylene, were also generated from the dicationic precursors, demonstrating that the reductive transformation can serve as a useful protocol to generate severely deformed π-conjugated systems.
Subject
General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry
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