An efficient one-pot synthesis of strongly fluorescent (hetero)arenes polysubstituted with amino and cyano groups

Yi, Chenyi; Blum, Carmen; Liu, Shi-Xia; Frei, Gabriela; Neels, Antonia; Stoeckli-Evans, Helen; Leutwyler, Samuel; Decurtins, Silvio

doi:10.1016/j.tet.2008.07.084

An efficient one-pot synthesis of strongly fluorescent (hetero)arenes polysubstituted with amino and cyano groups

Author(s)

Yi, Chenyi

Blum, Carmen

Liu, Shi-Xia

Frei, Gabriela

Neels, Antonia

Stoeckli-Evans, Helen

Institut de chimie

Leutwyler, Samuel

Decurtins, Silvio

Date issued

2008

In

Tetrahedron, Elsevier, 2008/64/40/9437-9441

Subjects

Cyclization Fluorescence (Hetero)arenes Photophysics Solid-state structures

Abstract

An efficient one-pot synthesis simultaneously results in three types of densely substituted mono-, di- and tetracyclic π-systems, which can easily be isolated. Each chromophore presents a strong fluorescence emission, either in the red, green or blue part of the spectrum.