• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.1159-1166
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• 2007

New unsymmetrical trans-stilbenes have been prepared by the sequential coupling reactions of bromobenzenesulfonate with formylarylboronic acids, benzylphosphonates and arylmagnesium bromides and characterized. The nickel-catalyzed reactions of stilbenesulfonates with aryl Grignard reagents produced the corresponding stilbenes via the nucleophilic aromatic substitution of the neopentyloxysulfonyl group by aryl nucleophiles. The great chemoselectivity of the alkyloxysulfonyl group allows the stepwise construction of unsymmetrical trans-stilbenes possessing terphenyl moieties. This procedure appears to be a promising and conceptually straightforward route for the parallel synthesis of various unsymmetrical stilbenes as well as other highly conjugated hydrocarbons.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.2175-2179
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• 2010

Quantum mechanical properties of unsymmetrical and unfunctionalized trans-stilbene derivatives 1-3, which had been prepared by solid-phase parallel syntheses, were characterized using mPW1PW91/6-311G(d,p) (hybrid HF-DF) calculations. The total electronic energies, normal vibrational modes, Gibbs free energies, and HOMOs and LUMOs of sixteen different structures from three different groups were analyzed. The energy differences between the HOMOs and LUMOs of the various unsymmetrical trans-stilbenes are in accord with the maximum absorption peaks of the experimental UV spectra of 1-3. The calculated normal vibrational modes of 21 were comparable with its experimental IR spectrum. The $\pi$-conjugation in the para-connected biphenyl group of 2 is better than the one in the metaconnected biphenyl group on the shorter side of 3.