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This thesis describes the synthesis and properties of some extended donor-acceptor dyads with the donor being a ferrocenyl moiety and a fluorescent naphthalimide group as the acceptor. Two series of extended ferrocenyl-naphthalimide dyads were prepared in reasonable yield depending on the synthetic route. The first are a series of three ferrocenyl-CH=CH-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads in which the spacers are phenyl, biphenyl and anthryl and the second are a series of three ferrocenyl-C[triple bond]C-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads in which the spacers are 2,2� -bithiophene, 2,5-dimethoxybenzene and tetrafluorobenzene groups. The molecular structures of some compounds have been determined by X-ray diffraction although with many challenges because of the extensive [pi]-[pi] stacking of molecules that leads to ready aggregation in the solid state, particularly for the ferrocenyl-CH=CH-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads, in which the naphthalimide bears a methyl head group. In order to reduce the [pi]-[pi] stacking effect between the molecules and also to produce chiral molecules for the potential nonlinear optical applications, a chiral α-methylbenzylamine was introduced as the head group of naphthalimide for the ferrocenyl-C[triple bond]C-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads. The resulting comounds successfully gave crystals of sufficient quality for X-ray structural investigation. While the oxidative electrochemistry of the ferrocenyl compound in the two series of dyads was largely predictable (E� ~ 0.55 V for ferrocenyl-CH=CH- and ~ 0.72 V for ferrocenyl-C[triple bond]C-), the presence of spacers in the dyads appeared to afford stability to the reduced naphthalimide species. This was exhibited by the appearance of chemically reversible one-electron reduction processes for each of the compounds investigated. Similar unusual chemical reversibility was also shown by the spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide precursor systems. For the ferrocenyl-CH=CH-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads, the oxidation and reduction potentials closely resembled those of the simple ferrocenyl-CH=CH-spacer systems. This suggested that augmentation of the simple ferrocenyl-CH=CH-phenyl, -biphenyl and -anthryl systems with an alkyne linked naphthalimide unit showed little influence on the oxidation of the ferrocenyl moiety or the reduction of the naphthalimide unit. However, for the ferrocenyl-C[triple bond]C-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads, the oxidation and reduction potentials are influenced by the inductive effects of the spacers. While an anodic shift was observed for the dyad with the electron-withdrawing spacer tetrafluorobenzene, a cathodic shift was displayed for the dyads with the electron-donating spacers 2,2�-bithiophene and 2,5-dimethoxybenzene compared to that in the simple ferrocenyl-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide system. The spectroscopic properties of the ferrocenyl-CH=CH-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads showed that interpolation of the aromatic spacers does not interfere with the internal charge separation. Oxidation of the ferrocenyl moiety resulted in bleaching of the metal-to-ligand charge transfer band at ~ 500 nm and the growth of a new band in the near infrared region at ~ 1000 nm. This new band can be assigned to a ligand-to-metal charge transfer transition, where the ferrocenium now acts as an acceptor to the naphthalimide donor. For the ferrocenyl-C[triple bond]C-spacer-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide dyads, the spectroscopic properties showed that the mutually electron-withdrawing tetrafluorobenzene and naphthalimide units had little interaction despite their connection by a conductive alkyne link. In contrast, the dyads containing the electron-donating 2,2�-bithiophene and 2,5-dimethoxybenzene showed some degree of interaction between the spacer and the naphthalimide fragments. This was evidenced by the appearance of a broad absorption band in the range 410 - 440 nm, which is associated with an orbital that is delocalised between the spacer and the naphthalimide fragments. Again, the roles of donor and acceptor were reversed on oxidation of the ferrocenyl moiety. This resulted in the growth of a new near infrared band at ~750 mn for the dyad containing the tetrafluorobenzene spacer and at ~ 1000 nm for the dyads with 2,2�-bithiophene and 2,5 -dimethoxybenzene spacers. The ferrocenyl unit went from being a net donor to ferrocenium, which was acting as an acceptor, with the tetrafluorobenzene spacer adopting the donor role more reluctantly than the delocalised 2,2�-bithiophene-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide and 2,5-dimethoxybenzene-C[triple bond]C-naphthalimide moieties. 1,3,5-Tri- and 1,2,4,5-tetra-substituted benzene cores were also used as spacers for the preparation of extended arrays of ferrocenyl-naphthalimide dyads. Utilisation of the 1,3,5 -tri-substituted benzene core enabled the core to be embellished in three directions, resulting in Y-motif extended arrays containing either one ferrocenyl unit [(ethenylferrocenyl)-C₆H₃-(C[triple bond]C-C₆H₅)₂] or one naphthalimide moiety [(4-piperidino-N-propargyl-naphthalimide)-C₆H₃-(Br)₂]. With the 1,2,4,5-tetra-substituted benzene core, the extension of the core was possible in four directions and gave extended arrays in an X-motif. Again, these systems contained either ferrocenyl units [bis(alkoxyferrocenyl)-C₆H₂-(C[triple bond]C-C₆H₅)₂] or naphthalimide moieties [(tetrakis-naphthalimide)-C₆H₂]. Attempts to incorporate both ferrocenyl and naphthalimide fragments into the X- or Y-motif extended arrays were unsuccessful. By adding C₂Co₂(CO)₆dppm across the triple bonds of two of the four alkyne groups in the X-motif naphthalimide system [(tetrakis-naphthalimide)-C₆H₂], it was possible to incorporate two oxidisable C₂Co₂(CO)₄dppm cluster units into the molecule. The electrochemistry of the resulting system showed two discrete oxidation processes, suggesting the possibility of some interaction between the dicobalt cluster redox centres.

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Includes Publications resultant of the thesis research Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-196). Electronic publication; full text available in PDF format; abstract in HTML format. A series of new cobalt(II) ℓ-keto iminato complexes and cobalt(II) salens have been made and the effect of chirality in the northern, southern and peripheral quadrants of these catalysts, with respect to induced enantiomeric excess, during ring-opening of 1,2-dioxines has been determined. Electronic reproduction.[Australia] :Australian Digital Theses Program,2001. ix, 206 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.

This thesis explores the synthesis and conformational behaviour of hexahydropyrimidines and related heterocycles, with particular emphasis on 5- hyrdohexahydropyrimidines. The conformational behaviour of these compounds was investigated using dynamic NMR spectroscopy, molecular modelling techniques and X-ray crystal structure analysis. The conformational behaviour of 5- hyrdohexahydropyrimidine, hexahydropyrimidine and their analogous oxygen compounds as well as a series of hexahydropyrimidines with various exocyclic substituents, were examined. The preferred conformations of all these compounds are attenuated by a combination of steric and electronic influences. These influences include intramolecular hydrogen bonding as well as anomeric and gauche interactions. The conformational behaviour of the selected seven membered benzodiazepine rings, which share structural characteristics with the six-membered 5- hyrdohexahydropyrimidines was also explored. The increased flexibility of the seven membered rings facilitates intramolecular hydrogen bonding, which in turn retards ring inversion in these systems / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This study is concerned with the reductive cleavage of tetracoordinated organophos-phorus compounds (either quaternary phosphonium salts R4P+ X??? or tertiary phosphine oxides R3P=O) with either the naphthalene radical (naphthalenide) anion or lithium aluminium hy-dride in THF solution at room temperature (RT). Part 1 examines the reaction of lithium naphthalenide with both phosphonium salts and phosphine oxides. The reaction was dem-onstrated to cleave phenyl groups from both bis-salts and bis-oxides in the presence of 1,2-ethylene bridges; based upon this, parallel syntheses of either 1,4-diphosphabicyclo[2.2.2]oc-tane or its P,P'-dioxide were attempted by using the commercially available ethane-1,2-bis-(diphenylphosphine) as the starting material in each case. Examination of the products ofreductive cleavage of the series of benzylphenylphosphonium bromide [PhnP(CH2Ph)4-n]+ Br???(where n = 0 to 3) with lithium naphthalenide leads to the proposal of a mechanism. Part 2 describes hydridic reductions of both quaternary phosphonium salts and ter-tiary phosphine oxides. Examination of the lithium aluminium hydride reduction of qua-ternary phosphonium salts using 31P-NMR has confirmed tetraorganophosphoranes (R4PH; R = Ph, alkyl) as intermediates in the reaction; in addition, two previously unknown classes of compounds, the triorganophosphoranes R3PH2 and the tetraorganophosphoranates R4PH2???, were also found to be intermediates. The behaviour of bis-phosphonium salts where the phosphonium centres are separated by either 1,2-ethylene or 1,3-propylene bridges are also examined. Formation of a monocation exhibiting a bridging hydride occurs when the cyclic bis-phosphonium salt 1,1,5,5-tetraphenyl-1,5-diphosphocanium dibromide is reacted with li-thium aluminium hydride. Mechanisms are proposed which are consistent with the observed experimental results.

The pyrrolo[3,2,1-ij]quinolin-6-one ring system was synthesised from 3-aryl-4,6-dimethoxyindoles and 2,3-disubstituted-4,6-dimethoxyindoles. The reaction of 4,6-dimethoxyindoles under Friedel-Crafts or Vilsmeier-Haack acylation gave the 2- and 7-indolyldeoxybenzoins in good yield. Cyclisation of 7-indolyldeoxybenzoins with N,N-dimethylformamide dimethyl acetal as a one carbon reagent gave the pyrroloquinolin-6-ones in high yield. Reduction of pyrroloquinolin-6-ones with hydrogen gas and 10% palladium on carbon or lithium aluminium hydride yielded the dihydropyrroloquinolin-6-ones. Demethylation of pyrroloquinolin-6-ones with 48% hydrobromic acid in glacial acetic acid gave a mixture of the monohydroxy and dihydroxy analogues in high yield. The synthesis of quinolin-4-ones using the Conrad-Limpach method was attempted using three different cyclisation conditions such as Dowtherm A, polyphosphoric acid and a mixture of diphenyl ether and methanesulfonic acid. Quinolin-2-ones such as 4-methyl-3-aryl-, 3,4-diaryl- and 3-aryl-4-benzyl-5,7-dimethoxyquinolin-2-ones could be synthesised from either the N-phenylacetylaniline or the N-trifluoroacetyl aniline strategy. Attempted reduction of the quinolin-2-ones with standard metal hydride reagents was unsuccessful. However reduction was achieved via the conversion of quinolin-2-one to the corresponding 2-chloroquinoline followed by reaction of the chloroquinoline with zinc powder and glacial acetic acid to produce a novel, highly substituted quinoline system. Demethylation was successfully carried out with 48% hydrobromic acid in glacial acetic acid to give the trihydroxyquinolin-2-one in high yield. The reactions of 4-substituted-5,7-dimethoxyquinolin-2-ones and the corresponding 2-chloroquinolines as potential organic intermediates were explored. Facile formylation of both quinolin-2-ones and 2-chloroquinolines was observed under Vilsmeier-Haack conditions while acetylation was successful under Friedel-Crafts conditions using antimony (V) pentachloride as the Lewis acid. Further reaction of 8-formyl-quinolin-2-one with 1,2-diaminobenzene in N,N-dimethylformamide led to the formation of a new 8-(benzimidazolyl)-quinolin-2-one ring system. The quinolin-2-ones exhibited selective electrophilic substitution at the C8 position for a range of reactions. However, an unexpected nitration occurred at the C3 position for the 4-methoxy and 4-phenyl-5,7-dimethoxyquinolin-2-ones with good yields. A series of novel 4,6-hydroxylindoles was successfully synthesised from the corresponding methoxy analogues in high yield using anhydrous aluminium chloride. When 3-(4-bromophenyl)-4,6-dimethoxyindole was reacted with 48% hydrobromic acid in glacial acetic acid a 2,2?-indolylindoline dimer was formed. The 5,7-dihydroxyquinolin-2-ones were similarly synthesised in high yield using anhydrous aluminium chloride in chlorobenzene.

Includes bibliographical references. / xi, 202 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Chemistry, 1994?

"July 2004" / Includes copies of publications by the author as appendix. / Includes bibliographical references. / ix, 181, [26] leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Describes the construction and characterisation of a variety of supramolecular architectures based on cyclodextrins. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Chemistry and Physics, Discipline of Chemistry, 2005?