1,3-Dimethyl-5-(3,4,5-tris(alkoxy)benzoyl) barbituric acid derivatives and their liquid crystalline difluoroboron complexes: Synthesis, characterization and comparative investigations of mesomorphic, thermotropic and thermo-morphologic properties

Abstract

A series of 1,3-dimethyl-5-(3,4,5-tris(alkoxy)benzoyl) barbituric acid derivatives 1a-4a with various chain length were synthesized by our group for the first time through the addition of 1,3-dimethyl barbituric acid to 3,4,5-tris(alkoxy)benzoyl chloride at room temperature in presence of pyridine. For preparation of their difluoroboron complexes, the derivatives 1a-4a reacts with borontrifluoride in the presence of triethylamine affording 1b-4b in moderate yields. All derivatives and complexes have been fully characterized by MS, FT-IR and multinuclear NMR spectroscopy. We also explored their liquid crystal properties by using POM, OM, CTW and DSC techniques. The results show that 3b and 4b with longer alkyl chain are monomorphic mesogens and exhibited enantiotropic thermotropic liquid crystalline mesophases. Investigation of their mesomorphic, thermo-morphologic and thermotropic properties is presented in this work. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.