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La synthèse organique contrôlée de nanobagues de carbone est un challenge scientifique de longue date. Ces composés polycycliques aromatiques cylindriques peuvent être définis comme des sections de nanotubes de carbone plus larges qu’épaisses ; et la courbure de leur système pi pourrait leur conférer des propriétés électroniques intéressantes.Depuis quelques années, notre équipe développe une approche générale de synthèse de composés aromatiques polycycliques fonctionnalisés par des fonctions carboxyliques. Cette approche repose sur la réaction de Perkin entre des acides aryle-acétiques et des acides aryle-glyoxyliques, qui va permettre l’assemblage de ces briques élémentaires en longs précurseurs flexibles mais conjugués. Une dernière étape de cyclisation intramoléculaire, ou « graphitisation », pourra alors conjuguer complètement et donc rigidifier la molécule finale. Cette approche a permis la synthèse de plusieurs nouveaux composés aromatiques polycycliques linéaires.L’objectif de cette thèse est l’adaptation de l’approche de Perkin à la formation de nanobagues aromatiques. Un premier défi a été efficacement remporté avec l’obtention et la caractérisation complète de plusieurs macrocycles flexibles mais conjugués. Certains de ces macrocycles ont même été formés avec d’excellents rendements grâce à la mise en place d’une technique de haute dilution. Plusieurs tentatives de graphitisation ont été menées sur ces composés, impliquant différentes techniques de synthèse telles que la photochimie ou la catalyse au palladium, mais ne permirent malheureusement pas la formation des nanobagues aromatiques désirées. Néanmoins, en modifiant la structure initiale de certaines briques élémentaires nous avons pu obtenir d’autres macrocycles conjugués plus flexibles qui, après photocyclisation, ont abouti à la formation d’autres macrocycles conjugués présentant des structures rigides mais atypiques car non planes. / The controlled organic synthesis of carbon nanobelts has been scientific challenge for a long time. Such cylindrical polycyclic aromatic compounds can be defined as sections of carbon nanotubes that are larger than wide. Interesting electronic properties could result from the curvature of their pi system.These last years, our team has developed a general synthetic approach for the formation of carboxy-functionalised polycyclic aromatic compounds. This approach involves the Perkin reaction of arylacetic acids with arylglyoxylic acids, in order to form conjugated and flexible elongated precursors. The last step is an intramolecular cyclisation, or “graphitisation”, which rigidifies the precursor and yields a fully conjugated final molecule. Applying this approach, our team has synthesised several new linear polycyclic aromatic compounds.The aim of this thesis is to adapt the Perkin reaction for the formation of aromatic nanobelts. A first challenge has been solved by synthesising and fully characterising several flexible and conjugated macrocycles. Some of those macrocyclic compounds have been obtained with unexpectedly good yields using a high dilution addition technique. Graphitisations have been tried on some of those macrocycles by different synthetic methods, i.e. photochemistry and palladium catalysis, but none of them led to the formation of the desired aromatic nanobelt. However, by modifying the initial structure of some of the building blocks, we obtained more flexible conjugated macrocycles, which then reacted, by photocyclisation, to form conjugated and non-planar rigid macrocycles with atypical structures.

A presente tese apresenta: I - Uma revislo bibliográfica sobre os adutos de Diels-Alder entre benzoquinonas 2-mono-substituídas ou benzoquinona não-substituída e ciclopentadieno; II - Uma visão mecanística, de literatura, sobre as reações de ciclo-adição; III - A síntese, por nós efetuada, de uma série de adutos de Diels-Alder entre ciclopentadieno e benzoquinonas 2-mono-substituídas por cloro, bromo, ou ainda, substituintes contendo nitrogênio, oxigênio, enxofre ou selênio; IV - O estudo que empreendemos sobre a fotociclização dos adutos acima mencionados. Na obtenção dos adutos, foram empregados dois métodos distintos: a reação de Diels-Alder e a substituição do halogênio por nucleófilos, nos adutos halogenados. Nove adutos inéditos foram isolados e caracterizados. A estereoquímica dos treze adutos preparados foi esclarecida por RMN de 13C e de 1H. O estudo da fotociclização dos adutos visava dois aspectos: sintético, para a obtenção de compostos-gaiola, e mecanístico. Foram isolados e caracterizados sete novos compostos-gaiola. Foi sugerido o mecanismo das referidas fotociclizações, através das determinações dos rendimentos quânticos e dos resultados de voltametria cíclica. Foi, também, fornecida uma possível explicação para a falta de reatividade fotoquímica de alguns adutos. / This thesis contains: I - A literature review about cyclopentadiene Diels-Alder adducts of benzoquinone and its 2-mono-substituted derivatives; II - A mechanistic overview of cycloaddition reactions; III - The synthesis of a series of Diels-Alder adducts of cyclopentadiene and 2-mono-substituted (by chloro-, bromo- or groups containing nitrogen, oxigen, sulfur or selenium) benzoquinones; IV - The investigation about the photocyclization of the same adducts. Two different methods were employed for the obtention of these adducts: either the Diels-Alder reaction, or the substituition of the halogen by nucleophiles, in the halo-containing adducts. Nine previously unreported adducts were isolated and characterized. The sterochemistry of the thirteen adducts prepared was determined through 13C and 1H NMR. The investigation about the photocyclization of the adducts had two main objectives: the synthesis of the corresponding cage-compounds and the elucidation of the photocyclization\'s mechanism. Seven new cage-compounds, previously unreported, were obtained and characterized. Quantum yield determinations and cyclic voltammetry data led to the proposition of a mechanism for the photocyclization reactions. An explanation for the lack of photoreactivity presented by some adducts was also furnished.

A presente tese apresenta: I - Uma revislo bibliográfica sobre os adutos de Diels-Alder entre benzoquinonas 2-mono-substituídas ou benzoquinona não-substituída e ciclopentadieno; II - Uma visão mecanística, de literatura, sobre as reações de ciclo-adição; III - A síntese, por nós efetuada, de uma série de adutos de Diels-Alder entre ciclopentadieno e benzoquinonas 2-mono-substituídas por cloro, bromo, ou ainda, substituintes contendo nitrogênio, oxigênio, enxofre ou selênio; IV - O estudo que empreendemos sobre a fotociclização dos adutos acima mencionados. Na obtenção dos adutos, foram empregados dois métodos distintos: a reação de Diels-Alder e a substituição do halogênio por nucleófilos, nos adutos halogenados. Nove adutos inéditos foram isolados e caracterizados. A estereoquímica dos treze adutos preparados foi esclarecida por RMN de 13C e de 1H. O estudo da fotociclização dos adutos visava dois aspectos: sintético, para a obtenção de compostos-gaiola, e mecanístico. Foram isolados e caracterizados sete novos compostos-gaiola. Foi sugerido o mecanismo das referidas fotociclizações, através das determinações dos rendimentos quânticos e dos resultados de voltametria cíclica. Foi, também, fornecida uma possível explicação para a falta de reatividade fotoquímica de alguns adutos. / This thesis contains: I - A literature review about cyclopentadiene Diels-Alder adducts of benzoquinone and its 2-mono-substituted derivatives; II - A mechanistic overview of cycloaddition reactions; III - The synthesis of a series of Diels-Alder adducts of cyclopentadiene and 2-mono-substituted (by chloro-, bromo- or groups containing nitrogen, oxigen, sulfur or selenium) benzoquinones; IV - The investigation about the photocyclization of the same adducts. Two different methods were employed for the obtention of these adducts: either the Diels-Alder reaction, or the substituition of the halogen by nucleophiles, in the halo-containing adducts. Nine previously unreported adducts were isolated and characterized. The sterochemistry of the thirteen adducts prepared was determined through 13C and 1H NMR. The investigation about the photocyclization of the adducts had two main objectives: the synthesis of the corresponding cage-compounds and the elucidation of the photocyclization\'s mechanism. Seven new cage-compounds, previously unreported, were obtained and characterized. Quantum yield determinations and cyclic voltammetry data led to the proposition of a mechanism for the photocyclization reactions. An explanation for the lack of photoreactivity presented by some adducts was also furnished.

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