Synthesis of π-conjugated polycyclic compounds by late-stage extrusion of chalcogen fragments

• Aissam Okba,
• Pablo Simón Marqués,
• Kyohei Matsuo,
• Naoki Aratani,
• Hiroko Yamada,
• Gwénaël Rapenne and
• Claire Kammerer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 287–305, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.30

• chalcogen extrusion thus appears as highly promising for the synthesis of conjugated materials containing thiophene or selenophene moieties. However, 1,2-dichalcogenin cycles stabilized in highly conjugated scaffolds are not easily converted by light or thermal activation, as mentioned above, and their

Thiophene/selenophene-based S-shaped double helicenes: regioselective synthesis and structures

• Mengjie Wang,
• Lanping Dang,
• Wan Xu,
• Zhiying Ma,
• Liuliu Shao,
• Guangxia Wang,
• Chunli Li and
• Hua Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.81

• (trimethylsilanyl)diseleno[2,3-b:3′,2′-d]thiophene ((TMS)2-bb-DST), and 2,5-di(trimethylsilanyl)diseleno[2,3-b:3′,2′-d] selenophene ((TMS)2-bb-DSS) were used as starting materials to synthesize three S-shaped double helicenes (i.e., DH-1, DH-2, and DH-3) through monobromination, formylation, the Wittig reaction

• ; selenophene; thiophene; Introduction Given their esthetically pleasing helical structures, inherent helical chirality, and extended π-conjugation, helicenes have attracted extensive research attention. Helicenes are generally divided into carbohelicenes and heterohelicenes. The rapid development of

• annulene [12], and twisted naphthalene as central spacers [19]. As its close analogue, selenophene has properties very similar to those of thiophene. Fused aromatic compounds containing selenophene units show favorable optical and electrochemical properties and improved charge transport characteristics in

Recent advances in the application of isoindigo derivatives in materials chemistry

• Andrei V. Bogdanov and
• Vladimir F. Mironov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 1533–1564, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.111

• based on more complex condensed analogs 31 containing a heterocyclic fragment showed a 2-times better efficiency (5.6% for difluorothiophene, 5.0% for selenophene) [46]. The effect of the length and branching of the alkyl substituent at the endocyclic nitrogen atom in a series of this type of donor

• time, selenophene analogs generally show lower values of mobility [90]. The introduction of fluorine atoms into the dithienyl fragment (see compound 46), while varying the symmetry of substitution of the 1,1' positions in isoindigo, did not lead to an improvement in the OFET efficiency (maximum μh

Synthetic approaches to bowl-shaped π-conjugated sumanene and its congeners

• Shakeel Alvi and
• Rashid Ali

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2212–2259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.186

• followed by quenching the hexaanionic species with selenium powder to afford 159 containing one 1,2-diselenin ring and two selenophene rings. Compound 159 was later subjected to deselenation in the presence of copper nanopowder (80–100 nm grain size) to furnish the expected compound 160 in quantitative

Synthesis of benzo[d]imidazo[2,1-b]benzoselenoazoles: Cs₂CO₃-mediated cyclization of 1-(2-bromoaryl)benzimidazoles with selenium

• Mio Matsumura,
• Yuki Kitamura,
• Arisa Yamauchi,
• Yoshitaka Kanazawa,
• Yuki Murata,
• Tadashi Hyodo,
• Kentaro Yamaguchi and
• Shuji Yasuike

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2029–2035, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.199

• , imidazo[2,1-b]selenoazoles, in which imidazole and selenophene are condensed, have been synthesized, and it was described in a patent that imidazo[2,1-b]benzoselenazole-3-acetamide derivatives have anticonvulsant activity [5]. Three ring closure reactions for the synthesis of imidazo[2,1-b]selenoazole

• a CuI catalyst for the synthesis of benzo[b]selenophene-fused imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines occurred smoothly [15][16]. Performing these types of reactions without the addition of a transition metal catalyst is more challenging, but would alleviate the environmental burden of removing and disposing of the

Selenophene-containing heterotriacenes by a C–Se coupling/cyclization reaction

• Pierre-Olivier Schwartz,
• Sebastian Förtsch,
• Astrid Vogt,
• Elena Mena-Osteritz and
• Peter Bäuerle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1379–1393, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.138

• ; heteroacene; selenophene; Introduction In recent years, great interest has been devoted to the development of new π-conjugated polycyclic molecules, in particular to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) such as acenes [1], phenacenes [2], or nanographenes [3]. Corresponding heteroacenes incorporating

• sparingly been used most probably because of the high price of selenophene itself, the limited number of commercially available derivatives, and the less explored chemistry. Nevertheless, the implementation of selenophenes as heteroanalogues of thiophene-based materials is highly attractive, because

• molecules containing selenophene fragments instead of thiophene showed promising optical and electrochemical properties [17][18][19] and improved charge transport characteristics [20]. With respect to fused selenoloacenes, only the shortest parent system consisting of two fused heterocycles, mixed thieno

Reactivity of bromoselenophenes in palladium-catalyzed direct arylations

• Aymen Skhiri,
• Ridha Ben Salem,
• Jean-François Soulé and
• Henri Doucet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2862–2868, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.278

• synthesis of unsymmetrical 2,5-di(hetero)arylated selenophene derivatives in three steps from selenophene. Keywords: C–H bond activation; catalysis; heteroarenes; palladium; selenophene; Introduction (Hetero)aryl-substituted selenophenes represent a class of molecules which exhibit useful physical

• examples of Pd-catalyzed direct arylations via the C–H bond activation of selenophenes using aryl halides as coupling partners have been reported [32][33][34][35]. Conversely, C–H bond activation methodology was employed in only in one case for the preparation of a heteroarylated selenophene from a

• haloselenophene. Wipf et al. reported in 2014 that using ethyl oxazole-4-carboxylate as reaction partner, the corresponding 2,5-bis(oxazol-2-yl)selenophene derivative was formed in 45% yield (Scheme 1c) [17]. Moreover, to our knowledge the Pd-catalyzed direct heteroarylation of 2-bromoselenophene has not yet been

Dimerization reactions of aryl selenophen-2-yl-substituted thiocarbonyl S-methanides as diradical processes: a computational study

• Michael L. McKee,
• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Katarzyna Urbaniak and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 410–416, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.44

• dimer 12, followed by the C–C bond formation involving the C(2) centers of the selenophene rings to yield the obtained twelve-membered heterocycle 9. In extension of the study, calculations were performed on the related symmetrical thiobenzophenone S-methanide by the same computational approach (see

Comparing blends and blocks: Synthesis of partially fluorinated diblock polythiophene copolymers to investigate the thermal stability of optical and morphological properties

• Pierre Boufflet,
• Sebastian Wood,
• Jessica Wade,
• Zhuping Fei,
• Ji-Seon Kim and
• Martin Heeney

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2150–2163, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.205

• KCTP using a method analogous to that used for thiophene-selenophene block copolymers [26]. Due to the much lower solubility of F-P3OT compared to P3OT, the more soluble P3OT block was grown first from the activated monomer 2, followed by the addition of 4 to the P3OT macroinitiator. Relative block

Synthesis of ferrocenyl-substituted 1,3-dithiolanes via [3 + 2]-cycloadditions of ferrocenyl hetaryl thioketones with thiocarbonyl S-methanides

• Grzegorz Mlostoń,
• Róża Hamera-Fałdyga,
• Anthony Linden and
• Heinz Heimgartner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1421–1427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.136

• described [1]. The latter substrates were prepared efficiently via acylation of ferrocene with in situ generated mixed anhydrides containing a trifluoroacetyl unit or, alternatively, by ferrocenylation of furan, thiophene or selenophene with mixed trifluoroacetyl anhydride. The obtained ferrocenyl

• polar axis, but achiral. Refinement of the absolute structure parameter [14][15] yielded a value of 0.13(1), which indicates that the crystal is a partial inversion twin with a major twin fraction of 0.87(1). In the cases of 5e and 5f, the thiophene and selenophene rings are disordered over two

• 5b and 5f (with 50% probability ellipsoids; arbitrary numbering of the atoms; only the major disorder conformation of the selenophene ring is shown). Reactions of aromatic thiocarbonyl S-methanides 2a,b with ferrocenyl thioketones 1 (Table 1). Reactions of cycloaliphatic thiocarbonyl S-methanides

Solution processable diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) cored small molecules with BODIPY end groups as novel donors for organic solar cells

• Diego Cortizo-Lacalle,
• Calvyn T. Howells,
• Upendra K. Pandey,
• Joseph Cameron,
• Neil J. Findlay,
• Anto Regis Inigo,
• Tell Tuttle,
• Peter J. Skabara and
• Ifor D. W. Samuel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2683–2695, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.283

• derivatives (e.g., selenophene) [20][21][22][23], often in combination with other heterocyclic units; the best performing systems are push–pull molecules or dyes [14]. In the last few years the diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP, 1, Figure 1) core has been widely incorporated in conjugated polymers for both OPVs and

The chemistry of bisallenes

• Henning Hopf and
• Georgios Markopoulos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1936–1998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.225

Syntheses and applications of furanyl-functionalised 2,2’:6’,2’’-terpyridines

• Jérôme Husson and
• Michael Knorr

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 379–389, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.41

• ], as catalysts [8], etc. On the other hand, five-membered heterocycles such as furan, pyrrole, selenophene, tellurophene or thiophene possess interesting features such as the capability to undergo chemical and electrochemical oxidation to afford polymers. These polymeric materials generally exhibit

Aromatic and heterocyclic perfluoroalkyl sulfides. Methods of preparation

• Vladimir N. Boiko

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 880–921, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.88

• -isomers [87]. Unlike pyrroles, furan, thiophene and selenophene react with CF3SCl only in the presence of catalysts. For selenophene [84] and thiophenes [85] SnCl4 is sufficient, whilst furans require more forcing conditions usually involving prolonged heating (20 h at 60 °C) and in pyridine for

• -groups into heterocyclic compounds (except for pyrrole and its derivatives) occurs in the presence of perfluoroalkanesulfonic acids (Scheme 20). Incorporation of the second fluoroalkylsulfanyl group into thiophenes [85] and selenophene [84] is possible in the presence of CF3SO3H. However, reaction of