Unsymmetric electronic push-pull bipyrroles - synthesis, spectroelectrochemical, and photophysical investigation

Tshitundu Tshibaka; Ivan Ulliel Roche; Stéphane Dufresne; William D Lubell; W G Skene

doi:10.1021/jo901965t

Unsymmetric electronic push-pull bipyrroles - synthesis, spectroelectrochemical, and photophysical investigation

J Org Chem. 2009 Dec 18;74(24):9497-500. doi: 10.1021/jo901965t.

Authors

Tshitundu Tshibaka¹, Ivan Ulliel Roche, Stéphane Dufresne, William D Lubell, W G Skene

Affiliation

¹ Département de Chimie, Pavillon Roger Gaudry, Université de Montréal, CP6128, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7.

PMID: 19911772
DOI: 10.1021/jo901965t

Abstract

The electrochromic and photophysical behaviors of unsymmetric bipyrroles were observed as intense color changes of the oxidized products relative to the neutral form. The color of the oxidized form and the oxidation potential were both tunable contingent on electronic group and substitution.