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Org Lett. 2004 Sep 30;6(20):3437-9. doi: 10.1021/ol048835s.

A new route to annulated oligothiophenes.

Organic letters

Valentine G Nenajdenko, Viktor V Sumerin, Konstantin Yu Chernichenko, Elizabeth S Balenkova

Affiliations

  1. Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119992, Russia. [email protected]

PMID: 15387517 DOI: 10.1021/ol048835s

Abstract

[reaction: see text] A new convenient method for the construction of thiophene-annulated thieno[2,3-b]thiophenes has been proposed. The key step of the method is ring closure of 10H-bisthienodithiocin-10-one by strong bases. The syntheses of two previously unknown annulated oligothiophenes, thieno[2,3-b]thieno[3',2':4,5]thieno[3,2-d]thiophene (1a) and thieno[3,2-b]thieno[2',3':4,5]thieno[3,2-d]thiophene (1b), have been described to illustrate the success of the method.

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