Abstract
To obtain new efficient electron acceptors, three bromine-substituted benzocycloheptene-1,4,7-triones, 14, 15, 16, and 7-dicyanomethylene-7H-benzocycloheptene-1,4-dione 36 have been synthesized. The electron affinities of the bromine-substituted quinones were found to be raised considerably as the number of bromine atoms increased compared with the parent trione 3. A linear correlation between E1redox and ELUMO(MNDO) has been shown. The dicyanomethylene substitution (36) of the tropone carbonyl of 3 caused an increase in the electron affinity by E1+ 0.2 V. To obtain an acceptor carrying electron-withdrawing substituents on C6 and C8 of 3, the 6,8-dimethoxycarbonyl derivative 18 was oxidized and gave a ring-contracted product 22 in fair yield. The formation is discussed in terms of electron distribution in the molecule of the expected product 19.
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