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KILIC¸ASLAN and KANTEKIN/Turk J Chem
The importance of phthalocyanine compounds is increasing and nowadays alternative synthetic methods
for the synthesis of these compounds are being developed. One of them is the synthesis of phthalocyanine using
microwave radiation.23 Briefly the benefits of microwave radiation are as follows: a very fast reaction takes
place, high purity products can be obtained, by-products can be reduced according to the methods of synthesis,
and the classic products with high efficiency are achieved in less time and with less expenditure of energy.24,25
Optically active 1,1’-binaphthyl phthalocyanines bearing a crown ether unit were synthesized.26,27 To
date, few reports have explored the process of combining chiral binaphthol groups with a phthalocyanine core.28
Since the first report on the use of chiral binaphthy-based crown ethers as hosts for molecular recognition, chiral
binaphthol has attracted much attention. Chiral macrocycles, metal complexes, linear oligomers, and polymers
based on the 1,1’-binaphthyl structure have been synthesized for use in molecular recognition and asymmetric
catalysis and as new functional materials.29
In the present study, we describe the synthesis and characterization of new 1,1’-binaphthyl phthalocya-
nines bearing O4 S2 macrocyclic moieties.
2. Experimental
2.1. Synthesis of 2,2’-[1,1’-Binaphtalene-2,2’-diyl bis(oxy)]diethanol (1)
1,1’-Binaphthalene-2,2’-diol (10 g, 35 mmol) was dissolved in 60 mL of absolute ethanol under a nitrogen
atmosphere and NaOH (35 g, 87.5 mmol) was added. The mixture was heated at 50 ◦ C and 2-chloroethanol
(6 mL, 87.4 mmol) and 17 mL of absolute ethanol were added dropwise over 15 min. After the addition was
completed, the reaction mixture was refluxed for 2 days under nitrogen. The reaction was controlled with
a chloroform/methanol (9.5:0.5) solvent system and then ended. The cream-like mixture was cooled to room
temperature and filtered before evaporating it to dryness under vacuum to obtain a viscous liquid product. This
product was redissolved in chloroform (200 mL) after washing it with 10% NaOH and water, consecutively. The
combined organic extracts were dried with anhydrous MgSO4 and evaporated to dryness. The product was
isolated as a cream-like solid following recrystallization of the crude residue from ethanol. Yield: 7 g (54%).
mp: 100–102 ◦ C. Anal. Calcd for C24 H22 O4 : C: 77.01; H: 5.88. Found: C: 77.20; H: 5.76%. IR (KBr tablet),
νmax /cm−1 : 3516–3240 (OH), 3055 (Ar–H), 2917 (Aliph. C–H), 1619, 1456, 1242 (Ar–O–C), 1141–1082 (–
OCH2), 972. 1 H NMR (CDCl3), (δ: ppm): 8.06–7.87 (m, 4H, ArH), 7.47–7.11 (m, 8H, ArH), 4.19–4.03 (m,
4H, O–CH2), 3.57 (br s, 4H, O–CH2), 2.29 (s, 2H, OH). 13 C NMR (CDCl3), (δ: ppm): 155.03, 134.02, 130.12,
129.87, 127.66, 126.92, 124.44, 123.69, 117.84, 111.14, 71.96, 61.46. MS (FAB) (m/z): 374 [M]+ .
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2.2. Synthesis of 6,7,9,10,25,26,28,29-Octahydrobenzo[h]dinaphtho [1,2-s:2 ,1 - α] [1,4, 13,16,7,10]
tetraoxacyloicosine-2,3-dicarbonitrile (2)
Compound 1 (3 g, 8.02 mmol), 192 mL of dry acetonitrile, anhydrous K2 CO3 (5.58 g, 40.08 mmol), NaI (6.12
g, 40.08 mmol), and 1,2- bis (2-iodoethyl mercapto)-4,5-dicyanobenzene (4.08 g, 8.16 mmol)30−32 were refluxed
under nitrogen atmosphere for 7 days. The reaction was controlled with chloroform/methanol (9.5:0.5) solvent
system and then ended. The yellow-orange mixture was cooled to room temperature and filtered. Then it
was evaporated to dryness under vacuum to obtain a viscous liquid product. This product was redissolved
in chloroform (200 mL) and washed with water. The combined organic extracts were dried with anhydrous
MgSO4 and until 10 mL were evaporated and filtered. The product was isolated as a yellow solid following
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