諸藤 達也

A new approach for electrooxidative coupling of aromatic compounds and primary alkylamines bearing a functional group such as a hydroxyl group and an amino group was developed. The key to the success of the transformation is heterocydization of functional primary alkylamines. Treatment of primary alkylamines bearing a functional group with nitriles or their equivalents gives the corresponding heterocycles. The electrochemical oxidation of aromatic substrates in the presence of the heterocycles followed by chemical reaction under nonoxidative conditions gave the desired coupling products.

Dendronized polystyrene having peripheral bromo groups was prepared from the dendronization of unfunctionalized polystyrene with dendritic diarylcarbenium ions bearing peripheral bromo groups using the "cation pool" method. The palladium-catalyzed amination of the peripheral bromo groups with diarylamine gave dendronized polystyrene equipped with peripheral triarylamines, which exhibited two sets of reversible redox peaks in the cyclic voltammetry curves.

Dendritic diarylcarbenium ion pools were synthesized by the low temperature electrochemical oxidation of the corresponding dendritic (diarylmethyl)trimethylsilanes, which were prepared by use of the iterative method consisting of electrochemical activation and Friedel Crafts type coupling. Time-course NMR studies revealed that thermal stability of dendritic diarylcarbenium ions depends both on the generation of the dendritic structure and on the para-substituents of the terminal phenyl groups. Dendritic diarylcarbenium ions up to the third generation exhibited high reactivity as a carbon electrophile. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Dendritic diarylcarbenium ions exhibited sufficient electrophilicity to react with unfunctionalized polystyrenes. The polymers obtained by the reaction of the first and the second generation dendritic diarylcarbenium ions with polystyrenes were well characterized by MALDI-TOF MS and SEC-MALLS analyses and observed by AFM.