Acetyl chloride → Thiophene-3-methanol

The syntheses of the initial hydroxymethyl polymer and O-alkyl derivatives are outlined in Schemes 1 and 2, respectively. The synthesis of the monomer 3,3′″-Didodecylquaterthiophene was obtained as reported in the literature in 75% yield by Stille coupling of two equivalents of 2-bromododecylthiophene with 5,5′-bis(trimethyltin)-2,2′-bithiophene.72 2,2′-Dibromo-3-3′″-didodecyl-quaterthiophene was then subjected to bromination using two equivalents of n-bromosuccinimide (NBS) in chloroform/acetic acid. The product was confirmed by the appearance of a singlet peak at 6.89 ppm in 1H NMR corresponding to the C—H proton at the 2-position of the thiophene ring. Thiophen-3-ylmethyl acetate was synthesized from thiophen-3-ylmethanol, which when subjected to acetylation using acetyl chloride in presence of DMAP as a catalyst resulted in the desired compound in good yield.73 Thien-3-ylmethanol was obtained from the reduction of thiophene-3-carboxaldehyde using LiAlH4. 1H NMR confirmed the product. A functionalized TTF derivative was synthesized by subjecting TTF to monolithiation using lithium diisoproplyamide as reported in the literature. The monolithiated product hence formed was formylated using N-methyl-N-phenylformamide, which then upon reduction with NaBH4 in methanol resulted in 4-formyltetrathiafulvalene.74 4-Formyltetrathiafulvalene was then substituted with 1,8-dibromooctane in a THF/DMF solvent mixture, which resulted in 4-(((8-bromooctyl)oxy)methyl)-2,2′-bi(1,3-dithiolylidene) in 65% yield. The product was confirmed by the disappearance of the —OH peak at 1.9 ppm and the appearance of two different types of triplet at 3.40 ppm and 3.42 ppm.

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ORD record

ord-ea757da1e1664cca8624cfe41824e3a5

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2014_07

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US08772764B2