Les benzofuroxanes sont des hétérocycles possédant des propriétés biologiques importantes. Ce type de composés possède une forte électrophilie en fonction du nombre de groupements électroattracteurs présent sur leur carbocycle. Les travaux de recherche de cette thèse s’inscrivent dans la continuité des travaux reportés dans ce domaine. Ainsi, dans une première partie purement bibliographique, sera développé l’historique de la synthèse et de la réactivité des benzofuroxanes ainsi que les travaux du laboratoire.Dans une seconde partie est présenté le développement de voies de synthèses originales vers des fluoronitrobenzofuroxanes à partir de composés simples et variés de type phénols, anisoles, et anilines. La synthèse de composés benzofuroxanes polyfluorés est ensuite présentée, revisitant la formation du 4,6-difluorobenzofuroxane qui a permis de mettre en évidence des résultats erronés de la littérature et de proposer une nouvelle méthode efficace pour sa formation. L’utilisation de la RMN à température variable a permis de déterminer sans ambiguïtés la structure de ces benzofuroxanes fluorés.Dans une troisième partie, leur réactivité est étudiée selon plusieurs méthodes, de la réactivité péricyclique à des calculs théoriques d’électrophilie globale en passant par des potentiels de réduction mesurés par voie électrochimique. Ces résultats sont comparés à d’autres électrophiles comme le trinitrobenzène en série aromatique ou le DNBF, pour les molécules superélectrophiles. De plus, la formation de quinoxalines possédant potentiellement des activités biologiques sera décrite.Dans une quatrième partie, la synthèse de composés de type benzodifuroxanes est développée. Après une introduction sur leurs caractéristiques structurales, la synthèse du 4-fluorobenzodifuroxane est décrite ainsi que la formation des analogues bromé et iodé. D’autre part la synthèse du 4-méthoxybenzodifuroxane et du 4-aminobenzodifuroxane sera décrite permettant d’apporter des informations sur la réactivité de ce type de composés.Enfin dans un dernier chapitre, la réactivité d’un électrophile chargé tel que le tropylium vis-à-vis de nucléophiles faibles indoliques sera présentée. La réaction de couplage avec le tropylium permettra de mettre en valeur la régiosélectivité de ce couplage. Les tropylidènes obtenus seront caractérisés afin de mettre en avant les caractéristiques spectrales de ce type d’adduit. Les tropylidènes formés sont ensuite oxydés afin de conduire à des tropyliums fonctionnalisés très colorés qui peuvent être aussi obtenus en une seule étape.Finalement, cette thèse s’achèvera sur une conclusion générale qui présentera aussi les perspectives sur le sujet et ce que ces travaux ont apporté à la chimie des benzofuroxanes. / Benzofuroxans are heterocycles exhibiting many biological activities. This kind of compounds has been shown to be very electrophilic spieces when substituted by electron-withdrawing groups. This work is an important part of the works reported in this field of heterocyclic chemistry. In the first part of this PhD thesis, one will find the bibliographic part dedicated to benzofuroxans including the works of our team.In a second part, the development of original synthetic pathways leading to fluoronitrobenzofuroxans from simple compounds like phenols, anisoles or anilines is shown. The synthesis of polyfluorinated benzofuroxans will be presented by revisiting the formation of 4,6-difluorobenzofuroxan highlighting erroneous published results and allowing the finding of new and efficient methods leading to the difluorinated benzofuroxan. The use of variable temperature NMR experiments allows the unambiguous determination of the structure of fluorinated benzofuroxans.In a third part the reactivity of benzofuroxans is studied using different methods such as the experimental study of the pericyclic Diels-Alder reaction, theoretical calculations of global electrophilcity and the electrochemical measurements of reduction potentials. These results are compared to those of other electrophiles like trinitrobenzene in the usual aromatic series and of 4,6-dinitrobenzofuroxan in the superelectrophilic dimension. Then, the formation of quinoxalines exhibiting potential biological activities will be described.In a fourth part the synthesis of benzodifuroxan-type compounds is developed. After an introduction dealing with their main structural features, the synthesis of the 4-fluorobenzodifuroxan and the formation of brominated and iodinated analogs are described. Then the synthesis of the 4-methoxybenzodifuroxan and the 4-aminobenzodifuroxan will bring interesting informations on the reactivity of this kind of compounds.In a last chapter the reactivity of the tropylium cation with weak nucleophiles such as indoles will be presented. The C-C coupling reactions with the tropylium cation allow the isolation of many tropylidenes moieties, which will be subsequently oxidized to lead to highly functionalized and colored substituted tropyliums.Finally, a general conclusion will summarize the significant results and the perspectives of this work in the field of benzofuroxans chemistry

A series of cis- and trans-bis(ethynyl)platinum complexes containing dimethyldihydropyrene (DHP) photochromic compounds were synthesized from RDHPCCH (R = H, CH3CO, PhCO, 1-naphthoyl and benzo[e]) and platinum chloride with appropriate ancillary ligands (PEt3, PPh3, dppe, bipy and phen). The complexes were studied using mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy (1H, 13C, 31P and 195Pt) and IR. The X-ray structural information for bis(DHP-ethynyl) platinum complexes 44, 45, 47, 49, and 52 revealed that the Pt complexes possessed a square planar geometry at the metal centers. These platinum complexes are T type photochromic compounds. The BDHP-derived platinum complexes 48, 49, and 52 open completely when irradiated by visible light (λ > 590 nm). The photoopening rates for the platinum complexes are about 4 times slower than the corresponding DHP-alkynes. All the alkynyl platinum complexes close thermally faster than the corresponding free alkynes, and the closing rate is not affected substantially by changing the ancillary phosphine ligands. The BDHP-ethynyl platinum complexes with PEt3, PPh3 and dppe ligands have similar thermal closing half lives at 25°C of τ1/2 = 42 h, 38 h and 33 h, respectively, in contrast to the half life τ1/2 = 62 h of the BDHP-ethyne 40. The first cyclobutadienyl cobalt substituted dihydropyrenes were prepared by CpCo(CO)2 cyclization of a series of dihydropyrenyl ethynes. When the other alkyne substituent was small (methyl or carboxyethyl) only cis (head-to-head) isomers were obtained, but with larger sized groups, mixed head-to-head and head-to-tail isomers were obtained. The crystal structure of complex 21 indicated some unusually short bond distances were present. By comparison of the NMR and bond length data for complexes 21 or 69 with those for phenyl-DHP 60, the aromaticity of the cyclobutadienyl cobalt fragment was estimated quantitatively to be at least as large as that of benzene. The organometallic fragment [Cbd-Co-Cp] substantially slowed the DHP photoopening reaction of complex 72 relative to precursors 67 or 35. DHP[e]tropone, 17, DHP[e]tropylium cation, 18 and DHP[e]cyclooctatetraene dianion, 20 were synthesized to study the relative bond localizing abilities of COT dianion 80 (105 % relative to benzene), tropylium cation 15 (55 % relative to benzene), tropone 79 (13 % relative to benzene) using DHP as the NMR probe. The internal methyl protons of DHP resonated at δ -3.56 for 17, δ -2.61 for 18 and δ -1.38 for 20. Cycloheptatrienyl anions 111, 112 and 19 were made from cyclohepta-2,4,6-triene (CHT) isomers 107 and 108 (for two anions, 112 and 19). The internal methyl protons of their DHP resonated at δ -2.52, 2.67 for 111, δ -0.80, -0.84 for 112 and δ +2.10 for 19. The anion 19 was best taken as a 20π electron paratropic system. The homo-aromaticity of the CHT isomers 107, 108 and 117 was estimated based on the NMR data and X-ray structural data. Obvious anisotropic effects existed and the bond localization ability of the CHT (24% based on NMR data for 108) may have a large error. The ring inversion barriers of the COT 82 and CHT 77 were measured using variable temperature NMR spectroscopy as 13.9 and 8.7 kcal/mol, respectively. Five X-ray crystallography structures were obtained for 99B, 17, 108, 117 and 125 and the information was used in estimating the bond localization abilities and in establishing absolute stereochemistry / Graduate

The formation of the tropylium ion, C7H7+, in the mass spectrum of toluene is a chemical process that has been studied extensively in the past. The advances in computational power of personal computers have made the investigation of the pathway to form this ion and its subsequent decomposition feasible at a fairly high level of theory. The calculations that we performed were at the HF/6-31G (d, p) and the B3LYP/6-311++G (2d) levels. This work will show areas of the potential energy surface around the highly symmetric tropylium ion to give a glance of possible mechanisms for its formation and decomposition. Our results have confirmed some of the mechanisms reported in the literature, and in addition new areas are explored in the report.

Arylsubstituierte Cycloheptatriene unterscheiden sich in ihrer Lichtabsorption, Molekülgeometrie und Elektronen- Donatorstärke gravierend von den korrespondierenden Aryltropyliumionen. Die Änderung der elektronischen Eigenschaften bei der Umwandlung der Arylcycloheptatrien- in die Aryltropyliumspezies ist daher potentiell nutzbar, um nichtkovalente Bindungskräfte in supramolekularen Einheiten mit Cycloheptatrienbausteinen zu beeinflussen. Licht stellt als ein energetisch und mit hoher örtlicher Auflösung selektiv anwendbares Reagenz ein besonders interessantes Werkzeug für die Verwirklichung solcher Schaltprozesse dar. Dies setzt jedoch Kenntnisse über photochemische Methoden der Erzeugung und Reduktion von Aryltropyliumionen und Einblicke in die Reaktionsmechanismen voraus. Die lichtinduzierte Generierung von stabilen Aryltropyliumionen wurde auf verschiedenen Wegen unter Nutzu ng zweier Klassen von Cycloheptatrienderivaten, der Arylcycloheptatriene und der Arylbicycloheptatriene, erreicht. Detaillierte Studien des Redoxverhaltens der Modellverbindungen wurden mit Hilfe von Stationärphotolysen, elektrochemischen Untersuchungen sowie durch Detektion von Intermediaten mittels ESR- und zeitaufgelöster Absorptionsspektroskopie angefertigt. Demnach erfordert die unter formalem Hydridtransfer verlaufende Photooxidation der Arylcycloheptatriene zu den korrespondierenden Aryltropyliumionen den Ablauf einer Sequenz aus photoinduziertem Elektronentransfer (PET), Deprotonierung der Cycloheptatrienradikalkationen und Grund zustandsoxidation der resultierenden Cycloheptatrienylradikale. Während die Energiebilanz des PET selbst in Gegenwart schwacher Elektronenakzeptoren stark negativ ist, bestimmt die Natur der Arylsubstituenten den weiteren Reaktionsverlauf. Entscheidend ist einerseits, daß die Deprotonierung der Arylcycloheptatrienradikalkationen mit dem thermodynamisch begünstigten Rückelektronentransfer (BET) konkurrieren kann und andererseits, daß die durch Deprotonierung gebildeten Arylcycloheptatrienylradikale im Grundzustand durch den verwendeten Akzeptor oxidiert werden. Eine hinsichtlich der Produkt- und Quantenausbeuten sehr effiziente Methode stellt die sensibilisierte Photooxidation in Gegenwart sehr starker Grundzustandselektronenakzeptoren, wie etwa Triplettsauerstoff oder Benzochinon, dar. Die Aktivierung der Arylbicycloheptatriene kann via PET oder durch photochemische Homolyse der zentralen C-C-Bindung erfolgen. Die im ersten Fall gebildeten Bicycloheptatrienradikalkationen fragmentieren mit hoher Geschwindigkeit unter Bildung eines Tropyliumions und eines Cycloheptatrienylradikals. Unabhängig von der Art der Photoreaktion stellt somit die Grundzustandsoxidation der Cycloheptatrienylradikale den Schlüsselschritt auf dem Wege der Generierung der Aryltropyliumionen dar. Mit Hilfe starker Akzeptoren, z.B. N-Methyl-acridiniumperchlorat oder weniger stabilisierten Tropyliumionen, lassen sich die Arylbicycloheptatriene oxidieren. Die Photoreduktion der Aryltropyliumionen ist in Gegenwart von Hydrid- und Zweielektronendonatoren möglich. Entgegen den Erwartungen werden auch in Gegenwart der Hydriddonatoren die Arylbicycloheptatriene erhalten. Als Grund hierfür kann das Ausbleiben der Protonierung der intermediär gebildeten Arylcycloheptatrienylradikale angesehen werden. Prinzipiell ist daher ein photochemisches Schalten zwischen den Redoxpartnern Aryltropyliumion und Arylbicycloheptatrien möglich. Ein Beispiel hierfür stellt das System N- Methyl- acridiniumion/Bis(4-Dimethylamino-phenyl) bicycloheptatrien bzw. 4-Dimethylamino- phenyltropyliumion/ 10,10'-Dimethyl-9,9'- tetrahydrobiacridinyl dar. Die Richtung der photochemisch induzierten Redoxreaktion (Oxidation des Arylbicycloheptatriens bzw. Reduktion des Tropyliumsalzes) wird hierbei bestimmt durch die Konzentrationsverhältnisse der Reaktanden. Aufgrund dieser Ergebnisse stellt die vorliegende Arbeit eine Basis für künftige Untersuchungen von lichtinduzierten Schaltprozessen in supramolekularen Aggregaten dar. / Compared with their corresponding tropylium ions, arylsubstituted cycloheptatrienes possess quite different behaviour in light absorption, shape and electronic donor strength. Therefore, those redox couples are useful candidates for influencing non-covalent bonding within supramolecular units, containing cycloheptatriene building blocks. The tool light was chosen due to its characteristics such as high energetic selectivity and even high optical resolution, to reach this goal. The planned light driven switching requires new photochemical methods of generation and reduction of the aryltropylium ions as well as insight in their mechanistic details. The photochemical formation of stable aryltropylium ions has been reached on different pathways using two classes of cycloheptatriene derivativs, the arylcycloheptatrienes and the arylbitropyls, respectively. The redox behaviour of the model compounds was subject of detailed studies by means of stationary photolysis and electrochemical measurements. The EPR and the time resolved absorption spectroscopy have been utilized to get further information about the electronic structure and reactivity of short-living species involved in the phototransformation. Accordingly, the photooxidation of arylcycloheptatrienes is possible in a sequence consisting of photoinduced electron transfer (PET), followed by deprotonation of the cycloheptatriene radical cations and subsequent oxidation of the resulting cycloheptatriene type radicals in the ground state (overall hydride transfer). Due to the fast PET, even in the presence of weak electron acceptors, the success of the reaction course depends on the nature of the aryl substituents. On one hand, the deprotonation step has to compete with the energetically favoured back electron transfer (BET). On the other hand, the used acceptors must be able to oxidize the cycloheptatrienyl type radicals. With regard to chemical and quantum yields, t he most efficient procedure is the sensitized photooxidation in the presence of strong ground state oxidants, such as dioxygen or benzoquinone. The photochemical activation of the arylbitropyls is either possible via PET or by homolytic cleavage of the central C-C-bond (direct excitation). The bitropyl radical cations resulting from the PET are subjected to a fast fragmentation process yielding tropylium ions and cycloheptatriene type radicals.Therefore, the ground state oxidation of the latter is the key-step in the photooxidation of arylbitropyls. Acco rdingly, strong acceptors such as acridinium ions or even weaker stabilized tropylium ions are capable to transform the bitropyls into tropylium ions. The photoreduction of the aryl tropylium ions can be achieved by using hydride or two electron donors. It is noteworthy that the arylbitropyls are the photo-products even in the presence of hydride donors. Evidently, this effect is caused by the impossible proton transfer between the donor radical cations and the cycloheptatriene type radicals. Therefore, the light induced switching is possible in the redox couple arylbitropyl and aryl tropylium ion. The system N-methylacridinium ion /bis (4-dimethylaminophenyl)bitropyl and 10,10'-dimethyl-9,9'-tetrahydrobiacridinyl / 4-dimethylaminophenyl tropylium ion should be announced in this context. Hereby, the direction of this photoinduced redox reaction (oxidation of the bitropyl or reduction of the tropylium ion) depends on the concentrations of the reactands. The present work should be understand as a basis for future research dealing with light driven molecular machines.