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3. Results
3.1. Synthesis
The diacetylenic molecule 1,4-diphenylbuta-1,3-diyne (1) (see
Fig. 3) was prepared following the Glaser method taking into ac-
count the modification of Hay [18,19] which considers the oxidative
coupling of terminal alkynes with cooper salts as catalysts and a
bidentate ligand, TMEDA, in the present particular case.
As shown in Fig. 3, 1-(p-nitro-phenyl)-2,5-triphenylpyrrole (2)
and 1-(p-carboxy-phenyl)-2,5-triphenylpyrrole (3) were synthe-
sized by the reaction of diphenyldiacetylene with different aro-
matic amines employing copper chloride (I) as catalyst, the
synthesis and characterization of these compounds have been
recently described [13,14]. These compounds were obtained by a
modification of a reported procedure [20].
Fig. 7. Voltammetric behavior of compounds 2 and 4 (TTF), (1 mM each), v ¼ 10 mV/s,
at platinum disk in 1 mM M TBAP in acetonitrile, before bulk electrolysis.
3.2. Electrochemical synthesis
The proposed electrochemical reaction is shown in Fig. 4.
The idea is to reach the two oxidative potentials of compound 4
(TTF) in order to share both resultant electrons with molecule 2. It is
known the large capability of compound 4 to form free radicals [8],
this characteristic made it a very popular generator of stable
conductor systems [3,12]. On other context, compound 2 can have
acceptable reduction potentials [13], therefore, the combination of
both species is promising to get interesting electronic interactions.
Therefore, the idea is to prepare a transfer charge complex be-
tween compounds 2 and 4, in a first step, a voltamperometric study
of both compounds was carried out in order to determinate the
nature and potentials for each participant in the reaction, after the
compounds were mixed and the electrosynthesis was carried out
by means the chronoamperometric technics. The cyclic voltam-
perograms of 4 and 2 compounds are shown in Figs. 5 and 6,
respectively; the potential scan was from ꢁ1000 to 1800 mV vs an
Ag/AgCl electrode and the solvent was anhydride acetonitrile.
Fig. 5 shows the voltammetric behavior, at 10 mV/s, of com-
pound 4, TTF (1 mM), on platinum in 0.1 M TBAP in AN. From this
figure it is observed that TTF presents two oxidation peaks and two
corresponding reduction peaks in the reverse scan, with a relative
Fig. 8. Chronoamperometric plot during bulk electrolysis of compounds 4 (TTF) and 2,
1
mM each, at platinum plate in 1 mM M TBAP in acetonitrile. The color solution
changes from orange to deep red.
c
a
quotient (Ip /Ip ) y 1. The latter behavior suggests two mono-
electronic quasi-reversible oxidation processes according to:
I= TTF ꢁ 1e /TTFþ Ep Ia ¼ 0:258 V
ꢁ
þ
ꢁ
2þ
a
II= TTF ꢁ 1e /TTF
Ep ¼ 0:629 V
II
a
c
A (Ep ꢁ E
p
) ¼ 0.173 V for both oxidationereduction processes
þ
shows that the cation TTF electrogenerated is stable enough in
2
þ
solution as well as the second cation observed, TTF
.
Fig. 6 shows the voltammetric behavior, at 10 mV/s, of com-
pound 2, 1 mM, on platinum in 0.1 M TBAP in AN. From this figure it
is observed that compound 2 presents one oxidation peak,
Fig. 9. Voltammetric behavior of compounds 2 and TTF (4) (1 mM each), v ¼ 10 mV/s,
at platinum disk in 1 mM M TBAP in acetonitrile, after 250 min bulk electrolysis.
a
c
Ep ¼ 1.04 V, and a corresponding reduction peak, Ep ¼ 0.90 V,
2.3. Computational details
c
a
with a relative quotient (Ip /Ip ) y 1. The latter behavior suggests a
mono-electronic quasi-reversible redox that shows that the
reduced form of compound 2 is stable in the oxidation range of TTF.
Fig. 7 shows the voltammetric behavior, at 10 mV/s, of the
mixture of compound 4 (TTF), and compound 2, both 1 mM, on
platinum in 1 mM TBAP in AN prior to bulk electrolysis. From this
All calculations were carried out using a pure DFT method for
energy evaluations, and it was applied Becke's gradient corrections
15] for exchange and Perdew-Wang's for correlation [16]. This
[
scheme gives place to the B3PW91 method which forms part of the
Gaussian09 code [17]. All calculations were performed using the 6-
figure it is observed that the voltammetric profile is strongly
31G** basis set. Frequency calculations were carried out at the same
a
modified since de first oxidation peak of TTF, Ep
0
I
, is displaced from
level of theory to confirm that the optimized structures were at a
minimum of the potential surfaces.
a
.258 mV to 0.786 V as well as for the second oxidation peak, EpII, is
displaced from 0.629 V to 1.24 V. The corresponding reduction
a
c
peaks are also modified since (Ep ꢁ E
p
) ¼ 0.173 V is increased to A