Chemical Communications

Rapid synthesis of 3-cyanopyridine-derived chromophores with two-dimensional tunability and solvatochromic photophysical properties

MC Bagley, Z Lin, SJA Pope

Index: Bagley, Mark C.; Lin, Zhifan; Pope, Simon J. A. Chemical Communications, 2009 , # 34 p. 5165 - 5167

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Abstract

Nicotinonitrile chromophores with two tunable functions, excellent photophysical properties and solvatochromic behaviour can be prepared quickly and efficiently by microwave- assisted tandem oxidation/Bohlmann–Rahtz heteroannulation followed by copper (I)- mediated N-arylation.