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Abhishek Pareek1, Maja Morawiak1, Emran Masoumifeshani1
1Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
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A one-pot oxygen-annulation couples chloroquinones with aromatic alcohols to efficiently construct π-expanded furans in yields up to 91%. Subsequent TIPS-acetylene functionalization and reductive aromatization enhance solubility and furnish bench-stable chromophores that absorb in the blue and exhibit strong fluorescence. Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) reveals low-energy, charge-transfer excitations in the quinone intermediates, which shift to higher-energy, localized π-π* transitions upon aromatization. Remarkably, these π-expanded furans withstand UV irradiation over 10-fold longer than TIPS-pentacene, highlighting their exceptional photostability.
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