Polycyclic anthraquinone

Figure 4.2 Some polycyclic anthraquinone vat dyes and pigments...

The syntheses of three polycyclic anthraquinones, indanthrone (53), pyranthrone (55a) and flavanthrone (55b), are illustrated in Scheme 4.7. In spite of the structural complexity of the products, the syntheses of these types of compound are often quite straightforward, involving, for... 

Scheme 4.7 Syntheses of the polycyclic anthraquinones indanthrone (53), pyranthrone (55a) and flavanthrone f55b)...

The Friedel-Crafts reaction, which proceeds via electrophilic aromatic substitution, as illustrated in the following scheme, is unique to the manufacture of anthanthrone pigments. Most other polycyclic anthraquinone pigments are synthesized via nucleophilic ring closure. 

Directed metalatioru orf/io-Metalation of bcnzamides has been used for a one-pot route to polycyclic anthraquinones and heterocyclic benzoquinones.1 Example ... 

Polycyclic Aromatic Carbonyl Dyes. StmcturaHy, these dyes contain one or more carbonyl groups linked by a quinonoid system. They tend to be relatively large molecules built up from smaller units, typically anthraquinones. Since they are appHed to the substrate (usually cellulose) by a vatting process, the polycycHc aromatic carbonyl dyes are often called the anthraquinonoid vat dyes. 

The use of the stannylquinones 81 results in the regioselective formation of 1,4-naphthoquinones or 9,10-anthraquinones 82 [40]. Highly-oxygenated angularly-fused polycyclic aromatic compounds are prepared by the ring enlargement [41]. (Scheme 29)... 

Various organic molecules are used as photosensitizers in liquid-phase reactions, for example, anthraquinones, aryl ketones, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dyes, etc. The following mechanism, as the most probable, was suggested for the initiation by the organic photosensitizer Q with the aromatic ring [204-208] ... 

Anthraquinone acid, disperse, basic and reactive dyes 280 Polycyclic vat dyes 294 Indigoid and thioindigoid dyes 316 Sulphur and thiazole dyes 321 Diarylmethane and triarylmethane dyes 327 Miscellaneous colorants 344 References 353... 

Apart from some nonclassified pigments such as Indanthrone Blue (P.131.60), the anthraquinone pigments, which are structurally or synthetically derived from the anthraquinone molecule, can be divided into the following four groups of polycyclic pigments. 

Most pigments derived from vat dyes are structurally based on anthraquinone derivatives such as indanthrone, flavanthrone, pyranthrone, or dibromoan-thanthrone. There are other polycyclic pigments which may be used directly in the form in which they are manufactured. This includes derivatives of naphthalene and perylene tetracarboxylic acid, dioxazine (Carbazole Violet), and tetrachloro-thioindigo. Quinacridone pigments, which were first introduced in 1958, and recently DPP pigments have been added to the series. 

In this section a number of polycyclic pigments are discussed which have been used for a long time as vat dyes for textile fibers. Heading the list are perylene, perinone, and thioindigo pigments, as well as pigments derived from anthraquinone. 

The term polycyclic pigments refers to pigments which are derived from the an-thraquinone skeleton, either by chemical structure or by synthesis. The complex fused-ring systems which are discussed in this context are all at least remotely related to the parent anthraquinone structure. 

This chapter classifies polycyclic pigments by chemical constitution. The resulting classes include aminoanthraquinones, hydroxyanthraquinones, heterocyclic and polycarbocyclic anthraquinone pigments. 

Indigoid Dyes Like the anthraquinone. benzodifuranone. and polycyclic aromatic carbonyl dyes, the indigoid dyes also contain carbonyl groups. They are also vat dyes. 

The simplest quinones are o- and p-benzoquinone [(3) and (4) respectively]. This quinonoid structural feature is widespread in naturally occurring compounds isolated from moulds, fungi, lichens, plants and insects,52 which include not only substituted benzoquinones but also substituted polycyclic quinones [i.e. the substituted analogues of, for example, 1,2-naphthoquinone (5), 9,10-anthraquinone (6), and 9,10-phenanthraquinone (7)]. 

Quinones of the more reactive, polycyclic, aromatic systems can usually be obtained by direct oxidation, which is best carried out with chromium(vi) compounds under acidic conditions. In this way 1,4-naphthoquinone, 9,10-anthraquinone and 9,10-phenanthraquinone are prepared from naphthalene, anthracene and phenanthrene respectively (Expt 6.128). Also included in this section is the reduction of anthraquinone with tin and acid to give anthrone, probably by the sequence of steps formulated below. 

It is now appreciated that the assembly of the anthraquinone skeleton (and related polycyclic structures) is achieved in a step-wise sequence. After the polyketide chain is folded, the ring at the centre of the fold is formed first, followed in turn by the next two rings. The pathway outlined for the biosynthesis of endocrocin and emodin is shown in Figure 3.30. Mechanistically, there is little difference between this and... 

Vat cotton, rayon, and wool water-insoluble dyes solubilized by reducing with sodium hydrogensulfite, then exhausted on fiber and reoxidized anthraquinone (including polycyclic quinones) and indigoids... 

In certain bicyclic and polycyclic thiadiazoles the ring can be hydrolytically cleaved to an o-diamine and sulfur dioxide. This process is a reversal of the reaction pathway involved in the synthesis of thiadiazoles from o -diamines and thionyl chloride or iV-sulfinylaniline under anhydrous conditions (see Section 4.26.5.1.1), and is analogous to, but much slower than, the hydrolysis of sulfurdiimides. In contrast to (1), which steam distilled without decomposition, steam distillation of [l,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-c][l,2,5]thiadiazole (21) produced only oxamide. Under milder conditions (75 °C, 12 h) a mixture of the diamine (22), oxamide and elemental sulfur was obtained (75JOC2749). Similar hydrolytic instability was observed in thiadiazole rings angularly joined to an anthraquinone (70RCR923) and ben-zofuroxan (78CPB3896). 

A variety of plant substances with planar, polycyclic, aromatic structures can intercalate with DNA, examples being the quinoline alkaloid camptothecin and the furanocoumarin phenolic psoralen (Table 12.1). A variety of plant-derived anthraquinones and naphthoquinones bind to DNA and it is notable that the structurally related anthraquinones mitox-antrone and adriamycin are clinically employed as anticancer drugs (Table 12.1). DNA-binding compounds that interfere with DNA repair, DNA replication and gene expression are cytotoxic and have potential as anticancer agents (see Chapter 9). 

The direct synthesis of anthraquinone from phthalic anhydride and benzene has been reported to proceed over zeolite Beta [50] in a shape selective manner. In a conventional anthraquinone synthesis, anthracene is used as a feedstock for oxidation. Once there is a shortage of it in the market, additional anthracene could be produced by isomerization of its isomer, viz. phenanthrene. This, however, is not possible by direct isomerization of the trinuclear aromatic system but involves the partially (symmetrically) hydrogenated species. Consequently, isomerization of symmetrical octahydrophenanthrene to symmetrical octahydro-anthracene was studied by Song and Moffatt [51]. As sketched in Figure 3, a high yield of symmetrical octahydroanthracene can be obtained over zeolite H-mordenite (ngj/nyy = 8) at 250 °C (liquid phase, decalin as solvent). These examples show that (shape selective) catalysis on zeolites is more and more expanding into the conversion of polycyclic aromatics, and we foresee continued interest and success in this field of zeolite catalysis. 

Acetylated cellulose Depending on acetyl content transition from normal phase to reversed phase chromatography Anthraquinones, antioxidants, polycyclic aromatics, carboxyhc acids, nitrophenols, sweeteners... 

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