Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (12): 2686.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20180302

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Different Pathways for the Cyclocondensation Reactions of 1,2-Diamine and 1,2-Diketone

ZHU Lei1, HAN Junyan1, CHANG Haizhen1, QIU Yuyuan1, ZHANG Yanan1, PENG Danni1, HU Wei2,*(), MIAO Shaobin3,*()   

  1. 1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
    2. School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
    3. Department of Chemistry and Physics, Augusta University, Augusta 30912, USA
  • Received:2018-04-17 Online:2018-11-16 Published:2018-11-16
  • Contact: HU Wei,MIAO Shaobin E-mail:huwei@hnu.edu.cn;smiao@augusta.edu
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21271070) , the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China(No.2016JJ2028) and the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Augusta University.

Abstract:

It is generally acknowledged that in protic organic solvents, 1,2-diamine reacts with 1,2-diketone to form an aromatic compound containing the pyrazine ring. As expected, the condensation reactions of 1,4-bis-[(triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]naphthalene-2,3-diamine or 1,4-bis[(triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]anthracene-2,3-diamine with 3,5-di-tert-butyl-1,2-benzoquinone yielded diazatetracene and diazapentacene derivatives. Meanwhile, naphthoazepin and anthroazepin derivatives which contained the imidazole ring were also obtained. Naphthoazepin and anthroazepin derivatives contained a seven-membered ring. All new compounds were characterized by proton and carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, UV-vis spectrophotometry, high resolution mass spectrometry and single crystal X-ray diffraction. The possible reaction mechanisms were proposed as well.

Key words: Azacene, Cyclo-condensation reaction, Ring expansion, Organic semiconductor, Single-crystal structure

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