Solvent Effects on Spectral Property and Dipole Moment of the Lowest Excited State of Coumarin 343 Dye

Steady-state absorption and fluorescence spectra, and time-resolved fluorescence spectra of coumarin 343 （C343） were measured in different solvents. The effect of the solvent on the spectral properties and dipole moment of the lowest excited state of C343 were investigated. It was found that the absorption and fluorescence spectra red-shifted slightly and strongly with increasing solvent polarity, respectively, because the charge distribution of the excited state leaded to the increasing difference between the absorption and fluorescence spectra with increasing solvent polarity. The dipole moment of the lowest excited state of C343 was determined from solvatochromic measurements and the quantum chemical calculation, and the results obtained from these two methods were fully consistent. Investigations of the time-resolved fluorescence of C343 in different solvents indicated that the fluorescence lifetimes increased nearly linearly with 4.45 ns in water. This can be ascribed between C343 and hydrogen donating increasing solvent polarity from 3.09 ns in toluene to to the intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions solvents

Metal-free C3-alkoxycarbonylation of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones with carbazates as ecofriendly ester sources

Quinoxaline-3-carboxylates and analogues are prevalent key structural motifs in bioactive natural products and synthetic drugs.However, the practical protocol for preparation of these motifs from simple raw materials under mild conditions remains rare. In this article, we report a facile protocol for the efficient preparation of various quinoxaline-3-carbonyl compounds(30 examples,63%–92%) through oxidation coupling of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones with readily available carbazates(or acyl hydrazines) in the presence of K_2S_2O_8 as an oxidant in metal-and base-free conditions. When tert-butyl carbazate was used as the coupling reagent,the decarboxylation product 3-(tert-butyl)-1-methylquinoxalin-2(1H)-one was obtained. The application of this process into a gram-scale synthesis can be easily accomplished. Mechanistic investigations reveal that the functionalization of quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones via a free-radical pathway.