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Microwave-assisted Intramolecular Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Reactions for the Synthesis of Functionalized Naphthalenes/Solvatochromic Dyes
Published on: April 1, 2013
2,2'-[1,1'-(Propane-1,3-diyldioxy-dinitrilo)diethyl-idyne]di-1-naphthol
Wen-Kui Dong1, Jian-Chao Wu, Yin-Xia Sun
1School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The mol-ecule of the title compound, C(27)H(26)N(2)O(4), lies across a crystallographic inversion centre and adopts an l-shaped configuration. Within the mol-ecule, the two naphthalene units are approximately perpendicular, making a dihedral angle of 80.24 (5)°. The two intramolecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, generate S(6) ring motifs. In the crystal structure, every mol-ecule links five other mol-ecules into an infinite cross-linked layered supra-molecular structure via inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, C-H⋯π inter-actions and π-π stacking inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.956 (4) Å].
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