Aromaticity disruption

In the case of phenazine, substitution in the hetero ring is clearly not possible without complete disruption of the aromatic character of the molecule. Like pyrazine and quinoxa-line, phenazine is very resistant towards the usual electrophilic reagents employed in aromatic substitution reactions and substituted phenazines are generally prepared by a modification of one of the synthetic routes employed in their construction from monocyclic precursors. However, a limited range of substitution reactions has been reported. Thus, phenazine has been chlorinated in acid solution with molecular chlorine to yield the 1-chloro, 1,4-dichloro, 1,4,6-trichloro and 1,4,6,9-tetrachloro derivatives, whose gross structures have been proven by independent synthesis (53G327). 

JA5190, 940M5132). Proton abstraction from 109 gives a neutral ti C) 2-thienyl complex, 110. Such a reaction becomes impossible in case of the 2,5-dimethylthiophene analog of 109. However, use of a strong base such as potassium hydroxide in methanol gives 111. An attempted transformation of 109 to 110 by protonation with triflic acid leads, however, to the thienylcarbene complex cation 112 where the aromaticity is disrupted. 

The total insolubility and intractability of the wholly aromatic LC homopolyesters and homopolyamides posed serious problems in their processability during the developmental stage. Introduction of disrupters (flexible species, rigid kinks, etc.) into the main chain or copolymerization with disrupter monomers reduces the perfectly arrayed chains structures and lowers their melting. Vectra and Xyder are two of the early LC commercial products [204-207]. 

Although many of the aromatic compounds based on benzene have pleasant odors, they are usually toxic, and some are carcinogenic. Volatile aromatic hydrocarbons are highly flammable and burn with a luminous, sooty flame. The effects of molecular size (in simple arenes as well as in substituted aromatics) and of molecular symmetry (e.g., xylene isomers) are noticeable in physical properties [48, p. 212 49, p. 375 50, p. 41]. Since the hybrid bonds of benzene rings are as stable as the single bonds in alkanes, aromatic compounds can participate in chemical reactions without disrupting the ring structure. 

The disruption of chain regularity by the introduction of lateral substituents or kinks on repeating units is a supplementary means to decrease the melting temperature of aromatic polyesters.72 This is illustrated in Table 2.9, where the melting temperatures of unsubstituted and methyl-substituted aromatic-aliphatic and aliphatic acids are reported. Regularity disruptions often cause significant... 

Several approaches have been used, all aiming at disruption of the structural regularity of aromatic polyester chains ... 

Introduction of nonmesogenic units in polymer chains. (E.g., using meta-substituted aromatic monomers such as isophthalic acid or resorcinol). This results in the formation of kinks in polymer chain, which disrupt lateral interactions. 

Aromatic polyamides, 5 Aromatic polyester chains, disruption of structural regularity of, 50-52 Aromatic polyesters... 

The Nazarov cyclization of vinyl aryl ketones involves a disruption of the aromaticity, and therefore, the activation barrier is significantly higher than that of the divinyl ketones. Not surprisingly, the Lewis acid-catalyzed protocols [30] resulted only in decomposition to the enone derived from 46,47, and CO. Pleasingly, however, photolysis [31] readily delivered the desired annulation product 48 in 60 % yield. The photo-Nazarov cyclization reaction of aryl vinyl ketones was first reported by Smith and Agosta. Subsequent mechanistic studies by Leitich and Schaffner revealed the reaction mechanism to be a thermal electrocyclization induced by photolytic enone isomerization. The mildness of these reaction conditions and the selective activation of the enone functional group were key to the success of this reaction. 

The weak interactions that may exist between group 2 cations and anionic hydrocabyl ligands are demonstrated in the metal-in-a-box compounds such as [M(THF)6][Me3Si(fluorenyl)]2 (M = Ca 159 or Mg), which are formed by the addition of THF to solutions of the bis(fluorenyl) complexes in non-polar solvents. The box may be completed by the presence of aromatic molecules, as in 159 (Figure 84). The disruption of the metal-carbon bonds is thought to stem from a combination of robust M-THF interaction, the stability of the free [Me3Si(fluorcnyl)] ion, and the formation of numerous C-H- -7r interactions between THF and the anions. These and related examples are reviewed elsewhere. 

Ferrocene is a very stable compound that melts at 173 °C and can be sublimed without disruption of the metal complex. Many reactions exhibited by ferrocene are essentially those of an aromatic organic compound. For example, sulfonation of ferrocene can be achieved as follows ... 

The fluorescence decrease in Figure 1 can be attributed to the consumption of the anthracene photosensitizer during the photosensitization reaction. The photosensitization proceeds by an electron transfer reaction from the anthracene to the initiator, resulting in loss of aromaticity of the of the central ring.17 Therefore, the photosensitization reaction leads to a disruption in the n electron structure of the anthracene, and the resulting molecule does not absorb at 364 nm (nor fluoresce in the 420 - 440 nm region). Hence, the steady-state fluorescence measurements allow the anthracene concentration to be monitored in situ while the photosensitization reaction takes place. 

When a sample of phenylalanine carrying a 14C label in the benzene ring was photolysed at 254 nm, it gave radioactive 2-allylglycine (2-aminopent-4-enoic acid, 16). This showed that the irradiation had disrupted the aromatic ring [23],... 

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