Indian Journal of Advances in Chemical Science, Volume: 9, Issue :3, August 2021

 
             
   
   

ISSN No.: 2320-0898 (Print); 2320-0928 (Electronic)

DOI: 10.22607/IJACS.2021.903002

   

Research Article

 

     

Annulation of Internal Alkyne toward Synthesis of Selective E-Benzofulvene
and Mechanistic Study using Density Function Theory Calculation

   
Shubhendu Dhara*, Anuvab Das, Dhiraj Das, Rajesh Koner

ABSTRACT

 

An efficient approach has been devised for the synthesis of highly functionalized E-benzofulvenes. While annulating an internal alkyne with 4-(2-bromophenyl)but-3-en-2-one yielded up to 87% of E-benzofulvene derivatives. Double functionalization of Csp2-H and ortho-C-Br bonds in an α,β-unsaturated arylketone in the presence of cheap catalyst PdCl2 with alkyne triple bond afforded almost quantitative formation of highly substituted benzofulvene in N,N-dimethylformamide solvent and under reasonable reaction conditions. Detail mechanism of annulations of alkynes to give selective E-benzofulvenes has been studied by density function theory analysis using the Gaussian 09 program.

     
     

Key words:  E-Benzofulvene, Annulation, Internal alkyne, Wittig reaction, o-bromostyrene, Density function theory.

 

 

 

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