Tổng hợp hợp chất mới n-(4-Hexylbenzoyl) Dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d] Pyrrole làm đơn vị mắt xích ứng dụng trong polymer liên hợp cho - nhận điện tử

 TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM TP HỒ CHÍ MINH 
TẠP CHÍ KHOA HỌC 
HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
ISSN: 
1859-3100 
KHOA HỌC TỰ NHIÊN VÀ CÔNG NGHỆ 
Tập 15, Số 3 (2018): 58-67 
NATURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
Vol. 15, No. 3 (2018): 58-67
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SYNTHESIS OF N-(4-HEXYLBENZOYL) 
DITHIENO[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]PYRROLE AS A NEW BUILDING BLOCK TOWARD 
APPLICATION IN DONOR – ACCEPTOR CONJUGATED POLYMERS 
Phan Tan Ngoc Lan1, Nguyen Huu Tam1, Nguyen Tran Ha1,2* 
1 Faculty of Materials Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - Vietnam 
National University 
2 Materials Technology Key Laboratory (Mtlab 
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology - Vietnam National University 
Received: 08/02/2018; Revised: 01/3/2018; Accepted: 26/3/2018 
ABSTRACT 
A new derivative of bridged bithiophene based N-(4-hexylbenzoyl) dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-
d]pyrrole (HBDP) has been successfully synthesized from 3,3’-dibromo-2,2’-bithiophene and 4-
hexylbenzamide via Ullmann-type C-N coupling amidation using 20 mol% CuI and 40 mol% 
DMEDA in 24 hours. A conversion of the HBDP monomer has obtained around of 35%. The 
structure of main product HBDP was characterized via the nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR 
and 13C NMR) and fourier transform infrared (FT-IR). The HBDP monomers will be used as 
potential moieties for direct arylation polycondensation to synthesize the donor-acceptor 
conjugated polymers. 
Keywords: N-acyl dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]pyrrole (DTP), Donor-acceptor (D-A) conjugated 
polymers, polymeric solar cells, Ullmann reaction. 
TÓM TẮT 
Tổng hợp hợp chất mới n-(4-hexylbenzoyl) dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]pyrrole 
làm đơn vị mắt xích ứng dụng trong polymer liên hợp cho – nhận điện tử 
Một dẫn xuất mới của họ bithiophene có cầu nối, N-(4-hexylbenzoyl) dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-
d]pyrrole (HBDP) đã được tổng hợp thành công từ 3,3’-dibromo-2,2’-bithiophene và 4-
hexylbenzamide bằng phản ứng ghép đôi amide hóa theo kiểu Ullmann. Hiệu suất chuyển hoá tốt 
nhất của HBDP đạt được là 35% với hệ xúc tác gồm 20 mol% CuI và 40 mol% DMEDA trong thời 
gian 24 giờ. Cấu trúc hoá học của HBDP đã được khảo sát bằng phổ cộng hưởng từ hạt nhân (1H-
NMR, 13C-NMR) và phổ hồng ngoại (FT-IR). Monomer HBDP sẽ được sử dụng làm nguyên liệu 
chính cho phản ứng trùng ngưng aryl hoá trực tiếp để tổng hợp nhiều loại polymer liên hợp cho – 
nhận điện tử. 
Từ khóa: N-acyl dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]pyrrole (DTP), polymer liên hợp cho – nhận điện tử, 
pin mặt trời hữu cơ, phản ứng Ullmann. 
1. Introduction 
* Email: nguyentranha@hcmut.edu.vn 
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Nowadays, there are great anxieties in both academic and industry about polymer 
solar cells (PSCs) on account of their benefits containing flexibility, solution process 
ability, lightweight, economic efficiency, short-time energy payback [1]. However, PSCs 
still have a limitation for commercialization due to low stability, low power conversion 
efficiency (PCE), voltage loss, short lifetime and large scale fabrication [2]. Consequently, 
several endeavors have been presented to solve these disadvantages as well as to improve 
efficiency of PSCs. Among them, narrowing PSCs materials band gaps is a sufficient 
solution lead to formation of donor-acceptor polymer feature which is to alternatively 
combine an electron-rich moiety (D) and an electron-deficient unit (A) into a same 
polymer molecular [3]. The magnitude of the band gap of D-A polymers will be reduced 
because of push-pull driving forces between donor and acceptor building blocks to form a 
new higher HOMO level and a lower LUMO level. The strength of donor and acceptor has 
a substantial impact on the degree of band gap reduction. Therefore, the selection of 
building blocks pave the way to obtain D-A polymer with expected band gap magnitude. It 
is practically recognized that the narrower the optical band gap, the stronger the electron-
withdrawing ability of acceptor unit in the copolymer [4]. In addition, the incorporations of 
medium/strong donor units and medium/strong acceptor units usually result in sufficient 
photovoltaic performances (PCE > 5 %) [5-11]. Based on that point, medium and strong 
acceptor segments are believed to be a superior decision for effective D-A conjugated 
polymer [12, 13]. 
Bridged bithiophene-based building blocks incorporating into D-A conjugated 
polymers have achieved high performance in PSCs. In 2010, Rasmussen and co-workers 
reported second generation of DTP, N-acyl-substituted DTP, with carbonyl group adjacent 
to nitrogen bridging atom possesses inductive effect led to the lowered HOMO level and 
consequently the devices acquired high Voc [14]. Recently, the N-acyl dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-
d]pyrrole (DTP) building blocks have been received considerable concern due to their 
good planar crystal structure, strong electron-withdrawing ability and symmetrical 
chemical structure with the side chain at the bridging unit [15]. Abovementioned priorities 
lead to low band gap and high mobility materials. These structures can be combined into 
various polymeric, oligomeric and molecular materials with a great properties to produce 
different high performance D-A conjugated polymers which are useful in a wide range of 
applications such as OLED, OFET and photovoltaic cells [16-19]. 
In this article, we report the synthesis and characterization of an emerge moiety, 4-
hexylbenzoyl dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]pyrrole (HBDP) with an attached long n-hexyl chain 
on benzoyl group to increase its solubility without disturbing the planarity of polymer 
backbone which could be used as acceptor units in D-A conjugated polymers. 
2. Experiment 
2.1. Materials 
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3,3’-dibromo-2,2’-bithiophene (98 %); N’,N-dimethylethylene diamine (DMEDA, 
99%), copper(I) iodide (CuI, 98 %) were purchased from AK Scientific and used as 
received. 4-hexylbenzoyl chloride (99 %) was purchased from Sigma Aldrich. Ammonium 
hydroxide solution 25% (NH3 25%) was purchased from Merck. Chloroform (CHCl3, 
Fisher Scientific, 99 %), tetrahydrofuran (THF, Fisher Scientific, 99 %), toluene (Merck, 
99 %), n-heptane (Labscan, 99 %) and ethyl acetate (Merck, 99 %) were used as received. 
All reactions were carried out in oven-dried flask under purified nitrogen. 
2.2. Characterization 
1H NMR and 13C NMR spectra were recorded in deuterated chloroform (CDCl3) with 
tetramethylsilane as an internal reference, on a Bruker Avance 500 MHz. Fourier transform 
infrared (FTIR) spectrum, collected as the average of 64 scans with a resolution of 4 cm-1, 
were recorded from KBr disks on the FTIR Bruker Tensor 27. 
2.3. Synthesis of 4-hexylbenzamide 
The 4-hexylbenzoyl chloride (10 mmol, 2.25 g) was dissolved in 3 mL dry 
tetrahydrofuran and 5 mL of an aqueous ammonium hydroxide solution (25 %) was added 
dropwise at 0 0C. The mixture was stirred for 4 h and then it was extracted with ethyl 
acetate (100 mL). The resulting precipitate was filtered off, washed with H2O and 
recrystallized from CH3OH, yielding a white solid (1.89 g, 92%). 1H NMR (500 MHz, 
CDCl3), δ (ppm): 7.72 (d, 2H), 7.24 (d, 2H), 6.11 (b, 1H), 5.93 (b, 1H), 2.65 (t, 2H), 1.62 
(m, 2H), 1.31 (m, 6H), 0.88 (t, 3H). 
2.4. Synthesis of N-(4-hexylbenzoyl) dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]pyrrole 
In an exemplary experiment, to a 50 mL rounded-bottomed flask equipped with a 
magnetic stirrer was added copper(I) iodide (0.191 g, 1mmol), DMEDA (0.215 mL, 2 
mmol), potassium carbonate (2.07 g, 15 mmol), followed by evacuation and backfilling 
with nitrogen. Then, toluene (15 mL) was added to the reaction mixture and the solution 
was stirred for 30 minutes. 4-hexylbenzamide (1.23 g, 6mmol) was added, followed by 
3,3’-dibromo-2,2’-bithiophene (1.62 g, 5 mmol). The reaction mixture was stirred at 110 
oC. The reaction was cooled to the room temperature in the next step, washed with distilled 
water (3 x 50 mL) and extracted with chloroform (100 mL). The organic phase was dried 
by anhydrous K2CO3. The solvent was removed by rotary evaporation. The crude product 
was purified by silica gel column chromatography with the eluent as following n-
heptane/ethyl acetate (v/v = 4/1) to give the isolated products. 
4-hexylbenzoyl dithieno[3,2-b:2’,3’-d]pyrrole (HBDP). Yellowless crystalline 
solid. 1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3), δ (ppm): 7.93 (d, 1 H), 7.79 (d, 2 H), 7.39 (d, 1H), 7.29 
(d, 2H), 7.19 (d, 1H), 7.14 (d, 1H), 2.66 (t, 2H), 1.63 (m, 2H), 1.31 (m, 6H), 0.88 (t, 3H). 
13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3), δ (ppm): 172. 36, 147.39, 133.75, 132.24, 128.76, 128.03, 
127.03, 126.06, 123.99, 35.85, 31.67, 31.13, 28.92, 22.66, 14.14. 
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4H-dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole (4H-DTP). White solid. 1H NMR (500 MHz, 
CDCl3), δ (ppm): 8.31 (b, 1H), 7.13 (d, 2H), 7.03 (d, 2H). Exactly match with the report of 
Bäuerle [20]. 
3. Results and discussion 
4-hexylbenzamide was synthesized through nucleophilic substitution of 4-
hexylbenzoyl chloride and NH3 in THF at 0°C for 4h with high conversion of 92%. Figure 
1 showed 1H NMR spectrum of 4-hexylbenzamide, which exhibited similarity in chemical 
shifts and integrations of protons with product reported by Stephens and co-workers [21]. 
Figure 1. 1H NMR spectrum of 4-hexylbenzamide 
The reaction between 4-hexylbenzamide and 3,3’-dibromo-2,2’-dithiophene via 
Ullmann-type C-N coupling under Cu(I)-catalysis to generate HBDP as the major product 
as shown in Scheme 1. Besides HBDP, 4H-DTP formation as by-product through an in situ 
hydrolysis of HBDP by the formed water was revealed by Bäuerle [20]. The reaction was 
conducted in presence of CuI as active catalyst, DMEDA as ligand and K2CO3 as base. 
After completion of reaction, both products were attained by extracting with chloroform, 
washing with distilled water and purification via column chromatography using the eluent 
of n-heptane and ethyl acetate (v/v:4/1). 
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S
Br
S
Br
S S
N
O
CuI, DMEDA, K2CO3, Toluene
110 0C, 24 h
 2 NH3, THF
0 0C, 4h
C6H13
Cl O
C6H13
NH2 O
C6H13
S S
N
HBDP 4H-DTP
H
Scheme 1. Synthesis routes of HBDP monomer 
Following this protocol, three factors of catalytic system comprise CuI, DMEDA and 
reaction time were studied to achieve the optimized parameters for highest conversion of 
HBDP (Table 1). 
Table 1. Investigated catalytic conditions for the production of HBDP 
K2CO3 base (3 equiv), toluene solvent (0.2 M), temperature (110 0C) 
Entry 
Catalyst CuI 
(mol%) 
Ligand DMEDA 
(mol%) 
Time 
(hour) 
% Yield 
HBDP 
1 10 20 24 18 
2 10 40 24 23 
3 10 60 24 20 
3 20 40 24 35 
4 30 40 24 24 
5 20 40 36 17 
6 20 40 30 27 
7 20 40 18 25 
Firstly, we explored the influence of ligand DMEDA loadings on the generation of 
HBDP (Entry 1-4). The reaction was performed in toluene at 110°C for 24h with 10 mol% 
CuI catalyst and 20 mol%, 40 mol%, 60 mol% DMEDA. The reaction executed at 20 
mol% DMEDA offered 18% yield of the expected product and by-product was 15% after 
24h. Meanwhile, the yield of HBDP could be increased slightly to 23% after 24h when 
using 40 mol% DMEDA but reduced to 20% with 60 mol% DMEDA pointed out the 
optimized concentration ligand was 40 mol%. 
Afterwards, the amounts of CuI were investigated and shown a critical effect on the 
conversion of main product (Entry 5-7), and the yield reached 35% with 20 mol% CuI 
employed comparing to 10 mol% showed a significant improvement of conversion. 
However, the yield of HBDP decrease to 24% with 30 mol% CuI. By contrast, the yield of 
4H-DTP raised to 29%. These results indicated the best CuI ratio was 20 mol%. 
Last approach was aimed at reaction time. The reaction was examined for 18h, 24h, 
30h and 36h. The 18h reaction provide HBDP with the yield of 25% and reached the 
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highest point of 35% at 24h. Nevertheless, the conversion reduced in 30h and 36h with 4H-
DTP yield went up simultaneously. It was revealed that the longer reaction times than 24h 
caused augmentation of side-product by hydrolysis process. 
As a consequence of due to abovementioned experiments, optimized parameters of 
Ullmann-type catalytic system were determined. For the best result, the reaction should be 
operated in toluene at 110°C and K2CO3 as base with 20 mol% CuI, 40 mol% DMEDA for 
24h. Consequently, structures of HBDP was determined by FT-IR and NMR method. 
Figure 2. FT-IR spectrum of HBDP 
The FT-IR spectrum of HBDP (Figure 2) displayed several peaks between 2856 and 
2923 cm-1 which were responsible for C-H stretching modes of n-hexyl groups and ring C-
H stretching vibrations. The peak at 1646 cm-1, which was ascribed to the C=O stretching 
vibrations precisely proved for the existence of the N-acyl group in this structure. The 
peaks at 1482/1401 cm-1 and the bands in range of 750 to 906 cm-1 are assigned to the 
aromatic C-C stretching vibrations and aromatic C-H deformation vibrations, respectively. 
In addition, the band of 1280 cm-1 is assigned to the aromatic C-N stretching vibration of 
the pyrrole units. In addition, the peak at 615 cm-1 pointed out the thiophene S-C stretching 
vibrations. 
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Figure 3. 1H NMR spectrum of HBDP in CDCl3 
In the 1H NMR spectrum of HBDP (Figure 3), the doublet peak at 7.79 ppm and 
7.29 ppm respectively corresponded to the four protons of ortho and meta positions on the 
benzene ring, in detail, two at positions ‘e’ and two at positions ‘f’. Obviously, peaks of 
thiophene ring are asymmetric due to strong hydrogen bond generated between C=O bond 
and thiophene β-proton on one side demonstrated two doublet peaks shifted to low-
magnetic field region at 7.93 and 7.39 ppm which were respectively responsible for 
positions ‘a’ and ‘b’. This phenomenon also affected peaks of the remaining side. The 
doublet peaks at 7.19 and 7.14 ppm corresponded to the two protons on the non-affected 
side at positions ‘c’ and ‘d’. Several peaks in range of 0.88 and 2.66 was assigned to 
protons on n-hexyl side chain. The chemical shifts along with the integrals of obtained 
signals were suitable with the structural formula of HBDP. Moreover, the HBDP monomer 
chemical structure of HBDP is similar to the chemical structure of N-acyldithieno[3,2-
b:2′,3′-d]pyrroles was confirmed by 1H NMR spectrum [14]. 
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Figure 4. 13C NMR spectrum of HBDP monomer 
13C NMR spectrum presented characteristic carbon positions to clearly determined 
HBDP structure (Figure 4). It exhibited C=O bond at 172.3 ppm. Meanwhile, peaks from 
147.4 to 124 ppm were corresponded to carbons on benzene and thiophene rings. 
Moreover, peaks in range of 35.8 to 14.1 ppm were assigned to carbons of n-hexyl side 
chain. These results indicated that Cu(I)-catalyzed Ullmann reaction successfully produced 
the main product HBDP. 
4. Conclusion 
In conclusion, the new derivative of bridged bithiophene DTP incorporating with 
N-acyl group, particularly N-(4-hexylbenzoyl) DTP monomer, has been achieved as 
expected product via copper(I)-catalyzed Ullmann-type amidation reaction. The 
chemical structures of these compounds were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NM and 
FT-IR analysis. In next generation, these monomers will be used to synthesize the 
novel D-A conjugated polymers. 
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 Conflict of Interest: Authors have no conflict of interest to declare. 
 Aknowledgment: This research was fully supported by Vietnam National Foundation for 
Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number “104.02-2016.56”. 
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