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- Title
Oligo(triacetylene) Derivatives with Pendant Long Alkyl Chains.
- Authors
Jean-François Nierengarten
- Abstract
Substituted (E)-2-(ethynyl)but-2-ene and (E)-hex-3-ene-1,5-diyne derivatives 6 and 10, respectively, were prepared by dicyclohexylcarbodiimide(DCC)-mediated esterification of tris(dodecyloxy)benzoic acid (4) with (E)-2-[(triisopropylsilyl)ethynyl]but-2-ene-1,4-diol (3) and (E)-2,3-bis[(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]but-2-ene-1,4-diol (8), respectively, followed by deprotection with Bu4NF in wet THF (Schemes 4;1 and 2). Oligomerization reactions of diyne derivative 10 were attempted by treatment with the Hay catalyst in the presence of mono-alkyne 6 as an end-capping reagent. Under these conditions, only compound 7 resulting from the homocoupling of 6 (Scheme 4;1), and polymers of 10 were obtained due to the difference in reactivity of the alkyne groups in 6 and 10. In contrast, when phenylacetylene was used as the stopper, the oligomerization of 10 afforded a mixture of end-capped oligomers, from which 11–13 were isolated by column chromatography (Scheme 4;3). The poly(triacetylenes) (PTA) 16–18 were prepared in a similar manner starting from diol 8 and stearic acid (Schemes 4;4 and 5). Whereas the end-capped monomers and dimers 11, 12, 16, and 17 with pendant long alkyl chains do not exhibit any liquid-crystalline behavior, the trimeric derivatives 13 and 18 show mesomorphic properties, thus demonstrating that the poly(triacetylene) backbone can behave as a mesogenic unit.
- Publication
Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2004, Vol 87, Issue 6, p1357
- ISSN
0018-019X
- Publication type
Article