PHOTOISOMERIZATION OF 2,2''-ETHANO-BRIDGED META-TERPHENYL DERIVATIVES - RING CONSTRAINT ACTIVATES AN UNREACTIVE CHROMOPHORE

被引:27
作者
UDAYAKUMAR, BS [1 ]
SCHUSTER, GB [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV ILLINOIS,ROGER ADAMS LAB,DEPT CHEM,URBANA,IL 61801
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10.1021/jo00027a059
中图分类号
O62 [有机化学];
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070303 ; 081704 ;
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The photochemistry of 2,2''-ethano-bridged m-terphenyl derivatives 4, 8, and 9 was investigated. These compounds are chiral and may be suitable photoresolvable additives to discotic liquid crystals. Unlike their unbridged analogues, 4, 8, and 9 rearrange rapidly when irradiated with UV light to the o-terphenyl compounds 10, 11, and 12, respectively. This rearrangement is likely to proceed through an intermediate benzvalene valence-bond isomer. The high reactivity of the 2,2''-ethano-bridged compounds is attributed to distortion in their lowest excited singlet states and to the relief of strain when the ortho isomers are formed.
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