Noncoupling synthesis of tetrathiafulvalenes

RR Schumaker, VY Lee, EM Engler

Index: Schumaker, R. R.; Lee, V. Y.; Engler, E. M. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1984 , vol. 49, p. 564 - 566

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Abstract

In the course of exploring the chemistry of thiapen6 as a means for synthesizing novel solid- state materials, we discovered a new and versatile procedure for constructing the tetrathiafulvalene skeleton that does not require coupling of molecular half-units. The synthesis outlined in Scheme I uses thiapendione (2) 6 as the starting point. Selective reaction of one of the carbonyl centers of 2 was affected by using a phase-transfer reagent ...