Electronic spectra of α, Β-unsaturated diketone derivatives of thiophene

The electronic absorption spectra of ,-unsaturated diketone derivatives of thiophene of the p-dichalcone type have been studied. As a rule, these compounds have deeper colors than the monoketone thiophene analogs of the chalcones corresponding to them. Electron-donating substituents in the aromatic nucleus of 2,5-dicinnamoylthiophene and also the replacement of the phenyl radicals in them by heterocyclic radicals cause a bathochromic shift of the long-wave absorption maximum (frequency) which correlates satisfactorily with Hammett's constants. Some ketones with strong electron-donating groupings fluoresce under UV irradiation.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 744–749, June, 1970.