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Electron Donor-Acceptor Compounds, XXXII. An Electron Donor-Acceptor Paracyclophane with N,N,N',N'-Tetramethyl-p-phenylene-diamine and 7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane Subunits
Staab, Heinz A.,Hinz, Reinhard,Knaus, Guenter H.,Krieger, Claus
, p. 2835 - 2847 (2007/10/02)
In an attempt to obtain electron donor-acceptor cyclophanes with a diradical-zwitterionic ground state the paracyclophane 1 was synthesized. 1 contains the combination of the N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD) unit as a strong donor with the tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) unit as a strong acceptor.The key intermediate for the synthesis of 1, 5,8-bis(methoxycarbonyl)paracyclophane (2), was obtained via the corresponding dithiaparacyclophane and its disulfone.Chloromethylation of 2 yielded 3; via 4 and 5 and subsequent Curtius rearrangement 6 w as obtained which by catalytic hydrogenation and methylation yielded 7.By transformation of the bis(cyanomethyl)-substituted ring of 7 into the TCNQ unit 1 was formed. - In the near infrared the electron spectrum of 1 contains a strong charge transfer absorption the solvent dependence of which was investigated.It is shown from these results as well as from other spectroscopic evidence (IR, ESR) that 1 does not exist in a diradical-zwitterionic ground state. - By X-ray structure analysis of 7 the assignment of the pseudogeminal structure has been proven for 1 and for the intermediates 3 to 7. - For spectroscopic comparison with 1 the TMPD-paracyclophane 8 was prepared starting from 2.
