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Valla L, Pitrat D, Mulatier JC, Le Bahers T, Jeanneau E, Ali LMA, Nguyen C, Gary-Bobo M, Andraud C, Bretonnière Y. Imidazo[1,2- a]pyridine and Imidazo[1,5- a]pyridine: Electron Donor Groups in the Design of D-π-A Dyes. J Org Chem 2024; 89:8407-8419. [PMID: 38853362 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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This work investigates the electron-donating capabilities of two 10-π electron nitrogen bridgehead bicyclic [5,6]-fused ring systems, imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine and imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine rings. Eight compounds with varying positions of electron-withdrawing moieties (TCF or DCI) coupled to the imidazopyridine ring were synthesized and studied. DCI-containing compounds (Ib-IVb) exhibited a purely dipolar nature with broad absorption bands, weak fluorescence, large Stokes shifts, and strong solvatochromism. In contrast, TCF-containing compounds (Ia-IVa) demonstrated diverse properties. Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives Ia and IIa were purely dipolar, while imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine derivatives IIIa and IVa displayed a cyanine-like character with intense absorption and higher quantum yields of emission. The observed gradual red shift in optical properties with changing electron-donor groups (IIb < Ib < IIIb < IVb) and (IIa < Ia < IIIa < IVa) underscores the stronger electron-donor character of imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine compared to that of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine. Furthermore, crystalline powders of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives exhibited fluorescence despite minimal emission in solution. Two compounds (Ib and IVa) were successfully formulated into nanoparticles for potential in vivo imaging applications in zebrafish embryos.
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- Léa Valla
- Laboratoire de Chimie de l'ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de l'ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de l'ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de l'ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342 Lyon, France
- Institut Universitaire de France 5 Rue Descartes, Paris 75005, France
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- Univ Lyon, Centre de Diffractométrie Henri Longchambon, Université Lyon I, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- IBMM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France
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- IBMM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France
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- IBMM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de l'ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de l'ENS de Lyon, Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69342 Lyon, France
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Volpi G, Laurenti E, Rabezzana R. Imidazopyridine Family: Versatile and Promising Heterocyclic Skeletons for Different Applications. Molecules 2024; 29:2668. [PMID: 38893542 PMCID: PMC11173518 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29112668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2024] [Revised: 05/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024] Open
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In recent years, there has been increasing attention focused on various products belonging to the imidazopyridine family; this class of heterocyclic compounds shows unique chemical structure, versatile optical properties, and diverse biological attributes. The broad family of imidazopyridines encompasses different heterocycles, each with its own specific properties and distinct characteristics, making all of them promising for various application fields. In general, this useful category of aromatic heterocycles holds significant promise across various research domains, spanning from material science to pharmaceuticals. The various cores belonging to the imidazopyridine family exhibit unique properties, such as serving as emitters in imaging, ligands for transition metals, showing reversible electrochemical properties, and demonstrating biological activity. Recently, numerous noteworthy advancements have emerged in different technological fields, including optoelectronic devices, sensors, energy conversion, medical applications, and shining emitters for imaging and microscopy. This review intends to provide a state-of-the-art overview of this framework from 1955 to the present day, unveiling different aspects of various applications. This extensive literature survey may guide chemists and researchers in the quest for novel imidazopyridine compounds with enhanced properties and efficiency in different uses.
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- Giorgio Volpi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Via Pietro Giuria 7, 10125 Torino, Italy; (E.L.)
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Mathur C, Gupta R, Bansal RK. Organic Donor-Acceptor Complexes As Potential Semiconducting Materials. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202304139. [PMID: 38265160 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202304139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Revised: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
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In this review article, the synthesis, characterization and physico-chemical properties of the organic donor-acceptor complexes are highlighted and a special emphasis has been placed on developing them as semiconducting materials. The electron-rich molecules, i. e., donors have been broadly grouped in three categories, namely polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrogen heterocycles and sulphur containing aromatic donors. The reactions of these classes of the donors with the acceptors, namely tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), tetracyanoethylene (TCNE), tetracyanobenzene (TCNB), benzoquinone, pyromellitic dianhydride and pyromellitic diimides, fullerenes, phenazine, benzothiadiazole, naphthalimide, DMAD, maleic anhydride, viologens and naphthalene diimide are described. The potential applications of the resulting DA complexes for physico-electronic purposes are also included. The theoretical investigation of many of these products with a view to rationalise their observed physico-chemical properties is also discussed.
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- Chandani Mathur
- Department of Chemistry, IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302020
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- Department of Chemistry, IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302020
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- Department of Chemistry, IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302020
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Kumar K, Sharma D, Thakur D, Karmakar A, Yang HW, Jayakumar J, Banik S, Jou JH, Ghosh S. Sterically Crowded Donor-Rich Imidazole Systems as Hole Transport Materials for Solution-Processed OLEDs. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:5137-5150. [PMID: 38412064 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Imidazole, being an interesting dinitrogenic five-membered heterocyclic core, has been widely explored during the last several decades for developing various fascinating materials. Among the different domains where imidazole-based materials find wide applications, the area of optoelectronics has seen an overwhelming growth of functional imidazole derivatives developed through remarkable design and synthesis strategies. The present work reports a design approach for integrating bulky donor units at the four terminals of an imidazole core, leading to the development of sterically populated imidazole-based molecular platforms with interesting structural features. Rationally chosen starting substrates led to the incorporation of a bulky donor at the four terminals of the imidazole core. In addition, homo- and cofunctional molecular systems were synthesized through a suitable combination of initial ingredients. Our approach was extended to develop a series of four molecular systems, i.e., Cz3PhI, Cz4I, Cz3PzI, and TPA3CzI, containing carbazole, phenothiazine, and triphenylamine as known efficient donors at the periphery. Given their interesting structural features, three sterically crowded molecules (Cz4I, Cz3PzI, and TPA3CzI) were screened by using DFT and TD-DFT calculations to investigate their potential as hole transport materials (HTMs) for optoelectronic devices. The theoretical studies on several aspects including hole reorganization and exciton binding energies, ionization potential, etc., revealed their potential as possible candidates for the hole transport layer of OLEDs. Single-crystal analysis of Cz3PhI and Cz3PzI established interesting structural features including twisted geometries, which may help attain high triplet energy. Finally, the importance of theoretical predictions was established by fabricating two solution-process green phosphorescent OLED devices using TPA3CzI and Cz3PzI as HTMs. The fabricated devices exhibited good EQE/PE and CE of ∼15%/56 lm/W/58 cd/A and ∼13%/47 lm/W/50 cd/A, respectively, at 100 cd/m2.
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- Krishan Kumar
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175075, India
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University 101, Sec. 2, Guang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175075, India
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rosvisco Pais, Lisboa 1049-001, Portugal
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University 101, Sec. 2, Guang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, 101, Sec. 2, Guang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613401, India
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University 101, Sec. 2, Guang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175075, India
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Chaudhran PA, Sharma A. Progress in the Development of Imidazopyridine-Based Fluorescent Probes for Diverse Applications. Crit Rev Anal Chem 2022:1-18. [PMID: 36562726 DOI: 10.1080/10408347.2022.2158720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Different classes of Imidazopyridine i.e., Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine, Imidazo[1,5-a] pyridine, Imidazo[4,5-b]pyridine, have shown versatile applications in various fields. In this review, we have concisely presented the usefulness of the fluorescent property of imidazopyridine in different fields such as imaging tools, optoelectronics, metal ion detection, etc. Fluorescence mechanisms such as excited state intramolecular proton transfer, photoinduced electron transfer, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, intramolecular charge transfer, etc. are incorporated in the designed fluorophore to make it for fluorescent applications. It has been widely employed for metal ion detection, where selective metal ion detection is possible with triazole-attached imidazopyridine, β-carboline imidazopyridine hybrid, quinoline conjugated imidazopyridine, and many more. Also, other popular applications involve organic light emitting diodes and cell imaging. This review shed a light on recent development in this area especially focusing on the optical properties of the molecules with their usage which would be helpful in designing application-based new imidazopyridine derivatives.
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- Preeti AshokKumar Chaudhran
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Roy T, Debnath I, Mahata K. Synthesis, optical properties and cation mediated tuning of reduction potentials of core-annulated naphthalene diimide derivatives. Org Chem Front 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2qo00399f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Napthalene diimides (NDIs) are attractive candidates for electrical energy storage owing to the stabilisation of complexes between eletrogenerated dianions and cations. However, stability of such complexes are often compromised due...
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Phenanthroimidazole substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives for deep-blue electroluminescence with CIEy ∼ 0.08. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2021.113600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Zheng XH, Huang TT, Yang GX, Lin AQ, Chen K, Chen X, Li JY, Tong QX. Constructing Highly Efficient Blue OLEDs with External Quantum Efficiencies up to 7.5 % Based on Anthracene Derivatives. Chemistry 2021; 27:16181-16188. [PMID: 34554619 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Acquiring desirable device performance with deep-blue color purity that fulfills practical application requirements is still a challenge. Bipolar fluorescent emitters with hybrid local and charge transfer (HLCT) state may serve to address this issue. Herein, by inserting anthracene core in the deep-blue building blocks, the authors successfully developed two highly twisted D-π-A fluorescent emitters, ICz-An-PPI and IP-An-PPI, featuring different acceptor groups. Both exhibited superb thermal stabilities, high photo luminescent quantum yields and excellent bipolar transport capabilities. The non-doped OLEDs using ICz-An-PPI and IP-An-PPI as the emitting layers showed efficient blue emission with an external quantum efficiency (EQEmax ) of 4.32 % and 5.41 %, and the CIE coordinates of (0.147, 0.180) and (0.149, 0.150), respectively. In addition, the deep blue doped device based on ICz-An-PPI was achieved with an excellent CEmax of 5.83 cd A-1 , EQEmax of 4.6 % and the CIE coordinate of (0.148, 0.078), which is extremely close to the National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) standard. Particularly, IP-An-PPI-based doped device had better performance, with an EQEmax of 7.51 % and the CIE coordinate of (0.150, 0.118), which was very impressive among the recently reported deep-blue OLEDs with the CIEy <0.12. Such high performance may be attributed to the hot exciton HLCT mechanism via T7 to S2 . Our work may provide a new approach for designing high-efficiency deep-blue materials.
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- Xu-Hui Zheng
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered, Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P. R. China.,Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, 515063, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 2 Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered, Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered, Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered, Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered, Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 2 Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered, Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P. R. China
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Shareef S, Saigal, Khizr M, Sahoo SC, Musawwer Khan M. Microwave assisted novel one-pot three-component reaction for synthesis of 3-aminoimidazopyridines using molecular iodine. Tetrahedron Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2021.153452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Tang SS, Yang GX, Zhu JJ, He X, Jian JX, Lu F, Tong QX. Multifunctional Materials Serving as Efficient Non-Doped Violet-Blue Emitters and Host Materials for Phosphorescence. Chemistry 2021; 27:9102-9111. [PMID: 33871880 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Efficient multifunctional materials acting as violet-blue emitters, as well as host materials for phosphorescent OLEDs, are crucial but rare due to demand that they should have high first singlet state (S1 ) energy and first triplet state (T1 ) energy simultaneously. In this study, two new violet-blue bipolar fluorophores, TPA-PI-SBF and SBF-PI-SBF, were designed and synthesized by introducing the hole transporting moiety triphenylamine (TPA) and spirobifluorene (SBF) unit that has high T1 into high deep blue emission quantum yield group phenanthroimidazole (PI). As the results, the non-doped OLEDs based on TPA-PI-SBF exhibited excellent EL performance with a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQEmax ) of 6.76 % and a violet-blue emission with Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage (CIE) of (0.152, 0.059). The device based on SBF-PI-SBF displayed EQEmax of 6.19 % with CIE of (0.159, 0.049), which nearly matches the CIE coordinates of the violet-blue emitters standard of (0.131, 0.046). These EL performances are comparable to the best reported non-doped deep or violet-blue emissive OLEDs with CIEy<0.06 in recent years. Additionally, the green, yellow and red phosphorescent OLEDs with TPA-PI-SBF and SBF-PI-SBF as host materials achieved a high EQEmax of about 20 % and low efficiency roll-off at the ultra-high luminance of 10 000 cd m-2 . These results provided a new construction strategy for designing high-performance violet-blue emitters, as well as efficient host materials for phosphorescent OLEDs.
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- Shan-Shun Tang
- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Material of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Guangdong, 515063, P.R. China
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Zhang Y, Chen R, Wang Z, Wang L, Ma Y. I 2-Catalyzed Three-Component Consecutive Reaction for the Synthesis of 3-Aroylimidazo[1,2- a]- N-Heterocycles. J Org Chem 2021; 86:6239-6246. [PMID: 33835809 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A convenient one-pot, three-component reaction has been developed for the synthesis of 3-aroylimidazo[1,2-a]-N-heterocycles from aryl ketones and 2-amino-N-heterocycles using dimethyl sulfoxide as a methylene donor. The reaction proceeds smoothly catalyzed by I2 in the presence of K2S2O8 and affords the desired products in moderate to good yields. This protocol offers significant superiority in accessing biologically active 3-aroylimidazo[1,2-a]-N-heterocycles with various substitution patterns.
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- Yi Zhang
- Institute of Advanced Studies and School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, P. R. China.,School of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, P. R. China
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- Institute of Advanced Studies and School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, P. R. China
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- Institute of Advanced Studies and School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, P. R. China
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- Institute of Advanced Studies and School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, P. R. China
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- Institute of Advanced Studies and School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, P. R. China.,School of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, P. R. China
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