高等学校化学学报 ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 899.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20141138

• 有机化学 • 上一篇    下一篇

不对称三环偶氮苯甲酸液晶的合成、光敏性及电化学性质

郑敏燕(), 魏永生, 耿薇   

  1. 咸阳师范学院化学与化工学院, 咸阳 712000
  • 收稿日期:2014-12-29 出版日期:2015-05-10 发布日期:2015-04-13
  • 作者简介:联系人简介: 郑敏燕, 女, 博士, 教授, 主要从事功能材料研究.E-mail: zmy71@126.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(批准号: 21102121)和陕西省自然科学基金(批准号: 2014JM2-2014)资助

Synthesis, Photosensitive and Electrochemical Properties of Asymmetric Liquid Crystals Based on Tri-ring Azo-benzoic Acid

ZHENG Minyan*(), WEI Yongsheng, GENG Wei   

  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xianyang Normal University, Xianyang 712000, China
  • Received:2014-12-29 Online:2015-05-10 Published:2015-04-13
  • Contact: ZHENG Minyan E-mail:zmy71@126.com
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21102121) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China(No.2014JM2-2014)

摘要:

以4-烷基环己基甲酸(C1~C3)、 4-烷基苯甲酸(C1~C5)和对羟基偶氮苯甲酸为主要原料, 通过室温一步酯化反应, 合成了2个系列8个不对称酯基偶氮苯甲酸类多官能团液晶化合物. 目标产物的结构、 液晶性及光敏性采用红外光谱(IR)、 核磁共振谱(NMR)、 质谱(MS)、 元素分析、 示差扫描量热分析(DSC)、 热台偏光显微镜(HS-POM)和紫外-可见光谱(UV-Vis)等表征. 利用循环伏安法(CV)测定了目标分子的前线轨道能级. 测试结果表明, 8个化合物均有液晶性, 在甲醇溶液中显现出光敏性, 在液晶态也观察到光顺反异构化. 端烷基碳原子数对化合物紫外吸收峰Ⅱ(偶氮结构π-π*带)、 HOMO能级、 LUMO能级和能隙Eg存在奇偶效应影响. 烷基为奇碳数化合物的Eg低于相邻烷基为偶碳数化合物. 这与目标分子紫外光谱变化趋势相吻合, 即Eg较小的化合物在紫外光谱中峰Ⅱ的吸收波长较长(能量较低), 反之亦然.

关键词: 液晶, 偶氮化合物, 光敏性, 前线分子轨道

Abstract:

Eight new asymmetric liquid crystals based on azo benzoic acid of two series were prepared, in which 4-alkyl(Me, Et or n-Pr) cyclohexyl carboxylic acid(3a—3c) or 4-alkyl(Me, Et, n-Pr, n-Bu or n-Pe)ben-zoic acid(3d—3h) were esterified with 4'-hydroxy azo benzoic-4-acid. A simple one-step reaction was developed to esterify only the hydroxyl of 4'-hydroxy azo benzoic-4-acid to synthesize target compounds at room temperature. The structure characterizations of all related products were performed using infrared spectrometer(IR), 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance(1H NMR), mass spectrometer(MS) and elementary analysis. The liquid crystalline and photosensitive properties were investigated by differential scanning calorimeter(DSC), hot stage polarizing optical microscope(HS-POM) and ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer(UV-Vis). The HOMO, LUMO energy levels and the energy gaps(Eg) of the compounds were calculated by cyclic voltammetry(CV). All the 8 compounds had liquid crystalline properties and exhibited photosensitivities in methanol solution and in mesophase by irradiation of UV-light. There is an effect of odd-even carbon number alkyl chains on the second peak(π-π* band of azo) in UV spectra and on energies of frontier molecular orbital was observed. The compound with odd carbon number alkyl chain has lower Eg than its neighboring ones with even carbon number alkyl chain. The result showed that the change tendencies of Eg were in excellent agreement with these of the absorption wavelength in UV spectra. The less was the Eg, the longer was the absorption wavelength(lower energy) of the second peak, and vice versa.

Key words: Liquid crystal, Azo compound, Photosensitivity, Frontier molecular orbital

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