SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW SPIROPYRAN CONTAINING CONJUGATED VINYL-3<i>Н</i>-INDOLIUM MOIETY AND ITS HYDROLYSIS PRODUCT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/6886Keywords:
merocyanine, spiropyran, CrystalExplorer, density functional theory, hydrolysis, NMR spectroscopy, X-ray structural analysisAbstract
A new spiropyran containing a cationic 3Н-indolium substituent and methoxy groups at positions 5 and 5'' of the indoline cycles was synthesized. Hydrolysis of this compound was observed during crystallization from EtOH, leading to the formation of protonated merocyanine form of spiropyran containing a free formyl group. The hydrolysis product was characterized by X-ray structural analysis, the intermolecular interactions in crystal were studied with the CrystalExplorer 21.5 software suite. Quantum-chemical modeling based on the Fukui function distribution was used to establish the preferred site for nucleophilic attack, and a mechanism for hydrolysis was proposed.
Authors: Anastasia S. Kozlenko, Artem D. Pugachev, Ilya V. Ozhogin, Valery V. Tkachev, Vladislav V. Bykusov, Natalia V. Stankevich, Sergei M. Aldoshin, Vladimir I. Minkin1, Boris S. Lukyanov*