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- Title
Abnormal Nucleophilic Substitution on Methoxytropone Derivatives: Steric Strategy to Synthesize 5‐Substituted Azulenes.
- Authors
Kumar, Neha Rani; Agrawal, Abhijeet R.; Zade, Sanjio S.
- Abstract
Azulene is a non‐alternant non‐benzenoid aromatic system, and in turn, it possesses unusual photophysical properties. Azulene‐based conjugated systems have received increasing interest in recent years as optoelectronic materials. Despite the routes available for the preparation of substituted azulene derivatives, there remain few methods that allow regioselective substitution on the seven‐membered ring of azulenes due to the subtle reactivity difference among the various positions. This report explores the reactivity of substituted tropolones as the azulene precursors and also provides a new method to create 5‐substituted azulenes. The reaction of cyanoacetate enolate with unsubstituted 2‐methoxytropone affords azulene through the attack of the nucleophile on the C‐2 center (normal pathway). We have observed that 3‐substituted 2‐methoxytropones undergo steric‐guided nucleophilic addition at the C‐7 center (abnormal pathway) to afford 5‐substituted azulene derivatives. Based on this observation and DFT calculation, a new synthetic strategy is devised for the regioselective synthesis of 5‐substituted multifunctional azulenes, which cannot be accessed by any other method.
- Subjects
CONJUGATED systems; AZULENE
- Publication
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 62, p14064
- ISSN
0947-6539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/chem.201902702