The special features of the thermal oxidative destruction of isomeric dipyrrolylmethanes

3,3′,4,4′-Tetramethyl-5,5′-dicarbethoxydipyrrolylmethane-2,2′ and its α,β and β,β isomers were synthesized. The compounds were characterized by recording their proton NMR spectra. The thermal oxidative destruction of the compounds was studied thermogravimetrically. The results were used to determine the temperature and enthalpy characteristics of fusion and the temperatures of the beginning and maxima of the exothermic effects of the destruction of dipyrrolylmethanes in air oxygen. The thermal stability of dipyrrolylmethanes was found to be primarily determined by molecular isomerism and increase for symmetrically substituted α,α-and β,β-dipyrrolylmethanes compared with the α,β isomer.