Stilbene Materials

Many chemical compounds have been described in the Hterature as fluorescent, and since the 1950s intensive research has yielded many fluorescent compounds that provide a suitable whitening effect however, only a small number of these compounds have found practical uses. Collectively these materials are aromatic or heterocycHc compounds many of them contain condensed ring systems. An important feature of these compounds is the presence of an unintermpted chain of conjugated double bonds, the number of which is dependent on substituents as well as the planarity of the fluorescent part of the molecule. Almost all of these compounds ate derivatives of stilbene [588-59-0] or 4,4 -diaminostilbene biphenyl 5-membeted heterocycles such as triazoles, oxazoles, imidazoles, etc or 6-membeted heterocycles, eg, coumarins, naphthaUmide, t-triazine, etc. 

Scintillation detectors are substances which fluoresce when stmck by x-radiation. Scintillation can, therefore, serve to convert x-ray photons into visible or ultraviolet light. Scintillation materials include thaUium-activatedcrystals of sodium iodide, NaI(Tl), potassium iodide, KI(T1), or cesium iodide, CsI(Tl) crystals of stilbene (a, P-diphenylethylene) [588-59-0] and anthracene [120-12-7] bismuth germanium oxide [12233-56-6] ... 

The cyclization product is thermally unstable relative to Z-stilbene and reverts to starting material unless trapped by an oxidizing agent. The extent of eyclization is solvent-dependent, with nonpolar solvents favoring cyclization more than polar ones. ° Whereas the quantum yield for Z-E isomerization is nearly constant at about 35%, the cyclization... 

Technical-grade (F)-stilbene obtained from Fluka AG gives satisfactory results, although a better grade is preferable. The checkers used reagent-grade material obtained from Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. 

The first reported electroorganic synthesis of a sizeable amount of material at a modified electrode, in 1982, was the reduction of 1,2-dihaloalkanes at p-nitrostyrene coated platinum electrodes to give alkenes. The preparation of stilbene was conducted on a 20 pmol scale with reported turnover numbers approaching 1 x 10. The idea of mediated electrochemistry has more frequently been pursued for inorganic electrode reactions, notably the reduction of oxygen which is of eminent importance for fuel cell cathodes Almost 20 contributions on oxygen reduction at modified... 

About 2 1. of cold water is added to the reaction mixture, and the insoluble material is collected on a Buchner funnel. The precipitate is transferred to a 2-1. beaker and extracted with two 600-cc. portions of hot ethyl alcohol. The combined extracts, on cooling, deposit long needles of stilbene which weigh 55-59 g. and melt at 116-121°. These are filtered with suction and are recrystallized from 600 cc. of 95 per cent ethyl alcohol. The yield is 45-48 g. (53-57 per cent of the theoretical amount) of colorless needles melting at 123-124°. 

Synthesis of the amino-triazole derivative (43) was performed in the authors laboratory by Pati et al. [52] (Scheme 7). Substituted benzyl bromide was reacted with triphenylphosphine to produce the phosphonium bromide starting material, 44. The Wittig reagent, obtained by treatment with sodium hydride, was reacted with 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzaldehyde 18 to generate the nitro-stilbene 45 in good yields. The alkyne 46 was obtained by bromination of the stilbene, followed by didehydrobromination. Compound 46 was then reacted under thermal conditions with benzyl azides... 

The crude material was purified by flash chromatography on silica gel (60 g), buffered with 1 % of triethylamine, using w-hexane-diethyl ether (95 5) to afford (R,R)-( )-stilbene oxide as a colourless oil (123 mg, 0.62 mmol, 62%). 

Since their commercial introduction during the 1940s as components of proprietary detergents and laundry preparations, these products have found extensive usage in the whitening of paper and textile materials. Disperse FBAs are available for whitening hydrophobic fibres and solvent-soluble FBAs impart fluorescence to oils, paints, varnishes and waxes. Approximately 75% of commercially established FBAs are stilbene derivatives with inherent substantivity for paper and cellulosic textiles, but the remainder come from about twenty different chemical classes. These include aminocoumarins (6%), naphthalimides (3%), pyrazoles and pyrazolines (each about 2%), acenaphthenes, benzidine sulphones, stilbene-naphthotriazoles, thiazoles and xanthenes (each about 1%). FBAs of these and other chemical types are discussed in detail in Chapter 11 of Volume 2. 

Stilbeneamines. The functionalization of stilbenes with arylamino groups leads to materials that emit in the green-to-yellow spectral region. For example, 9,10-bis(4-(7V,/V-diphenylamino)styryl-anthracene (BSA, 21) absorbs at429nm and emits at 585 nm [141]. Compound 21 and other derivatives of bistyrylanthra-cene have been successfully applied in yellow emitting OLEDs [64]. Tetra(tri-phenylamino)ethylene (TTPAE, 20) emits at 539 nm [109]. The latter compound exhibits a large quantum yield of 25% in the amorphous film, but does not show fluorescence in solution. 

The gratings can also be made in situ by holographic irradiation as was demonstrated for low molecular stilbenes in a polystyrene matrix [197]. Here, the spatial modulation of gain dominates over the refractive index modulation in its contribution to optical feedback. The principles of holographic irradiation will be described in Section VIII, which discusses photosensitive materials. 

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