Regioselective Friedel–Crafts deacylations of polycyclic aromatic ketones in the pyrene series

Taghreed Hidmi, Sergey Pogodin, Benny Bogoslavsky, Israel Agranat*

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Abstract

1,3,6,8-tetrabenzoylpyrene (1,3,6,8-Bz4PY) and 1,3,6-tribenzoylpyrene (1,3,6-Bz3PY) were synthesized and their crystal structures were determined. The Friedel–Crafts deacylations in PPA of 1,3,6,8-Bz4PY (at 120–200 °C) and of 1,3,6-Bz3PY (at 80–160 °C) have been studied. The mono-deacylation of 1,3,6-Bz3PY was regioselective and led to three dibenzoylpyrenes in the following order of relative amounts: 1,8-Bz2PY > 1,6-Bz2PY > 1,3-Bz2PY. 1,3,6,8-Bz4PY was resistant to deacylation at 120–160 °C. The deacylations of 1,3,6,8-Bz4PY at 200 °C gave the polycyclic aromatic ketone (PAK) 8H-dibenzo[def,qr]chrysen-8-one (DBCO) via an intramolecular Scholl reaction. Two plausible pathways of the Friedel–Crafts deacylation of 1,3,6,8-Bz4PY to give DBCO are proposed. A density functional theory (DFT) B3LYP/6-311(d,p) computational study of the conformational spaces of 1,3,6-Bz3PY and 1,3,6,8-Bz4PY was performed. The estimated energy barriers of formation of dibenzoylpyrenes by deacylation of 1,3,6-Bz3PY increase in the following order: 1,8-Bz2PY < 1,3-Bz2PY < 1,6-Bz2PY. A mechanism of the Friedel–Crafts deacylation of 1,3,6-Bz3PY in PPA via the respective O-protonated ketone and σ-complexes is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)97-111
Number of pages15
JournalStructural Chemistry
Volume29
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2018

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Keywords

  • DFT
  • Friedel–Crafts deacylation
  • NMR
  • X-Ray crystallography
  • acyl rearrangements, Scholl reaction
  • polyphosphoric acid
  • pyrene

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