Polyketone compounds are powerful building blocks to
synthesize
various organic functional materials. Despite that a great many number
of planar and non-planar polyketone building blocks have been developed,
one issue is that generally there are only ketone functional groups
on the molecular skeleton, which will constrain their transformation
and further limit the development of functional materials. In this
work, we report the design and synthesis of a building block 9,10-diethyl-9,10-ethenoanthracene-2,3,6,7(9H,10H)-tetraone with additional vinyl functional
groups. In addition, its azaacene derivatives were also synthesized,
and their preliminary physicochemical properties were studied.