The Interconnection of Two Positive Charges by Conjugation and Cross‐Conjugation in Bis‐Quinolinium Ethynyls

Abstract

1,4‐Diethynylbenzene was used as conjugated all‐carbon and rigid spacer between the 2‐, 3‐ and 4‐positions of two 1‐methylquinolinium rings. Thus, for a systematic study, a series of dicationic salts with 2,2‐, 3,3‐, 4,4‐, 3,2‐, and 3,4‐interconnections of the two positive charges was prepared, in which all even‐numbered substitution patterns are conjugated, and all odd‐numbered substitution patterns are cross‐conjugated. As a consequence, conjugated/conjugated, cross‐conjugated/cross‐conjugated, and conjugated/cross‐conjugated dications have been prepared. The different combinations result in considerably different charge distributions of the positive charges within the π‐electron systems according to the rules of resonance which translate into different DFT‐calculated frontier orbital profiles and spectroscopic properties such as 13C NMR chemical shifts, IR and Raman absorptions, and the measured as well as calculated UV/Vis spectra.