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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 78, Issue 22, Pages 11238-11246Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo401683r
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- Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research [20099PKPHH_004, 2009MB4AYL]
- University of Bologna
- Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna
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Thermochemiluminescence is the luminescence process in which a thermodynamically unstable molecule decomposes with light emission when heated above a threshold temperature. We recently reported the thermochemiluminescence properties of an acridine-containing 1,2-dioxetane, which emits at relatively low temperatures (i.e., below 100 degrees C). Herein, we explored the effect of the introduction of methyl substituents in the acridine system. The methyl group did not determine an excessive destabilization of 1,2-dioxetane ring nor significantly affect the general physical properties of the molecule. Monosubstituted methyl derivatives and a series of derivatives bearing several combinations of two, three, and four methyl groups were prepared. The rate of formation of 1,2-dioxetane derivatives 1b-k strongly depended on the methyl substitution pattern. All members of this library of mono-, di-, tri-, and tetramethyl-substituted derivatives were characterized in terms of photophysical and thermochemiluminescence properties. The introduction of methyl groups into the acridine ring caused a marked decrease in the activation energy of the thermochemiluminescent reaction. Tri- and tetramethyl-substituted acridones had the highest fluorescence quantum yields, in the range 0.48-0.52, and the corresponding 1,2-dioxetanes 1h and 1j showed in thermochemiluminescence imaging experiments limit of detection values more than ten times lower with respect to the unsubstituted derivative.
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