Neutral diterpenoids of oleoresins of five species of conifers of Transcarpathia

The compositions of the neutral diterpenoids of the oleoresins of five species of conifers growing in the Transcarpathia have been studied. It has been found that the oleoresins ofAbies alba M.,Larix decidua M., andPicea excelsa L. contain more than 50% of neutral diterpenoids. The group and qualitative compositions of the oxygen-containing diterpenoids have been determined. In the oleoresins ofAbies alba,Picea excelsa, andPicea abies tertiary alcohols — cis-abienol and isocembrol — predominate, while inLarix decidua the main component is the hydroxy ester larixyl acetate. Primary alcohols related to the resin acids have been found in all the oleoresins investigated. Features of the distribution of diterpenoids according to the species of conifers have been revealed. The results obtained are necessary for the chemotaxonomy of conifers of the family Pinceae.Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodynkh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 812–816, November–December, 1988.     

Influence of viscosity of medium on processes of oxygen quenching of excited states of mesoporphyrin

The oxygen quenching rate constants for singlet and triplet excited states of the dimethyl ester of mesoporphyrin IX increase with decreasing viscosity of the medium and reach a maximum at a viscosity of approximately 0.4 mPa·sec, after which the rate constants begin to decrease. The drop in rate constant with increasing fluidity of the medium may be related to a nonequilibrium character of the elementary act in the interaction of the reactants in the solvent cage. In viscous media such as isopropyl alcohol, isobutyl alcohol, and isoamyl alcohol, the reaction radius is greater than the sum of the radii of the reacting particles. The long-range character of these processes is due to the relatively weak dependence of the quenching probability on distance.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 161–167, March–April, 1989.     

Effect of composition of coordination sphere on value of constant of additional hyperfine structure of EPR spectra

Conclusions Replacing the oxygen atoms by sulfur atoms in the coordination sphere of nitrogen-containing copper complexes leads to a substantial increase in the constant of the additional hyperfine structure from the nitrogen atoms, and consequently also to an increase in the degree of covalency of the Cu-N bonds.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 704–706, March, 1974.The authors thank V. I. Nefedov for taking the x-ray electronic spectra of compounds (I) and (II).     

非那雄胺合成工艺改进

非那雄胺能抑制5α-还原酶的活性,明显降低二氢睾酮水平,是一种治疗良性前列腺增生的有效药品。该合成工艺以甾烯酮酸为原料,将其与氯化亚砜反应,无须分离即与叔丁胺反应得17β-酰胺化合物,再氧化开环,环合,氢化,脱氢合成了非那雄胺。经元素分析、IR、1HNMR、13CNMR、MS分析表征了其结构。该法无须使用昂贵的2,2-二吡啶二硫化物和剧毒药品苯亚硒酸酐,且以乙酸铵代替氨气,降低了对设备的要求和腐蚀,更适用于工业生产。     

Phospholipids of the seeds of experimental varieties of kenaf

Phospholipids of the seeds of kenaf of the variety Opytnyi-1931 are similar with respect to their set of components and the qualitative composition of the fatty acids of homogeneous classes to the phospholipids of the variety Opytnyi-1972, but differ with respect to the amounts of individual acids. The fatty-acid composition of the lysophosphatidylcholines and lysophosphatidylinositols of experimental varieties of kenaf seeds have been studied for the first time.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbekh SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 158–160, March–April, 1986.     

Calculation of enthalpies of hydrogenation of hydrocarbons

Sets of hydrogen molecule equivalents have been developed which permit the calculation of hydrogenation of different types of carbon-carbon bonds from ab initio total energies (3-21G and 6-31G* basis sets, and, to a more limited extent, for MP2/6-31G* data) of reactants and products. The calculated enthalpies of hydrogenation are in good agreement with experiment for unstrained molecules, with average errors on the order of 2 kcal/mol. The 6-31G* equivalents allow the enthalpies for strained molecules to be calculated accurately, but the 3-21G equivalents do not. The equivalents for both basis sets have been tested by calculating the enthalpies of hydrogenation of carbon-carbon bonds in nitrogen- and oxygen-containing organic molecules, free radicals, and classical carbocations. The results are in good agreement with experiment in most cases.     

Summary of development of the theory of stability of colloids and thin films

In this review, the research of the author in the field of colloidal systems is summarized. The factors influencing colloidal stability are systematized and analyzed. Examples are presented to illustrate the practical utilization of the theory of stability of colloids and thin films.This review was prepared on the basis of the works of the author, which were awarded the State Premium for 1991 in the field of science and technology, chemistry section.Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117915 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1708–1717, August, 1992.     

Composition of the complex of biopolymers of the cell walls of the grape

The complex of high-molecular-weight substances of the cell walls of the grape has been studied. It has been shown that the complex contains polysaccharides, proteins, and phenolic substances presumably linked through O-glycosidic bonds."Magarach" Scientific-Research Institute of Wine-Making and Wine-Growing, Yalta, M. V. Frunze Simferopol' State University, Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 564–567, September–October, 1984.     

Determination of heats of detonation and influence of components of composite explosives on heats of detonation of high explosives

The heats of detonation of 20 simple high explosives and explosive mixtures were determined by means of an adiabatic detonation calorimeter designed by the authors. The results indicated that the performance of the instrument was reliable and the experimental data were very accurate. For explosive mixtures, there was a linear accumulative relationship between the heats of detonation of the explosive mixture and its components. Accordingly, the heats of detonation of explosive mixtures could be calculated directly from the heats of detonation of simple explosives and the characteristic heats of other components. The experiments showed that the gold or brass shell of the cylindrical charge could be substituted by a thick-walled porcelain shell, which had the advantage of cheapness.

     

Dichroism of absorption and polarization of phosphorescence of molecules of the closed form of nitrobenzospirothiopyran

The spectral-polarization characteristics of absorption and phosphorescence of molecules of the initial form of nitro-substituted indolinospirobenzothiopyran were studied in oriented polyethylene films and in solutions with different polarity. An oscillator model of the electron transitions responsible for the formation of absorption and luminescence spectra was suggested. It was established that the principal differences in the spectral and photophysical properties of the compound studied and its oxygen-containing analog are associated with the fact that the electronegativity of the S atom is lower than that of the O atom. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1143–1146, June, 1997.     

Direction of epoxidation of esters of polyunsaturated acids

Conclusions The direction of the epoxidation of a number of polyunsaturated acids was studied and it was shown that the epoxidation proceeds at the double bonds furthest away from the carbethoxyl group.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 943–947, April, 1977.     

Structure of the products of the photoreaction of osthole

The results are given of a study of the photoreaction of osthole in chloroform and acetophenone. It has been shown that when it is irradiated in the latter solvent the cyclization characteristic for coumarins takes place at the double bonds both in the 3,4- position of the coumarin ring and in the side chain, leading to the formation of cyclobutane structures.Leningrad Sanitary-Hygienic Medical Institute. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 165–168, March–April, 1980.     

Investigation of the products of the oxidation of gossypol structure of gossindan

A new compound, which we have called gossindan, has been isolated from the products of the oxidation of gossypol by oxygen in an alkaline medium. The structure of gossindan has been established on the basis of a study of IR, mass, PMR, and¹³C NMR spectra and x-ray structural analysis as 6,6-di-(2,7-dihydroxy-3-isopropyl-5-methylindan-1-one).A. S. Sadykov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Fax 627071. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 50–58, January–February, 1994.     

Gas-chromatographic determination of the composition of the volatile components of the oleoresins of some species of conifers

Using the method of analytical GLC in a glass capillary column, the compositions have been studied of the volatile fractions of the oleoresins of five species of conifers:Larix decidua,Pinus strobus,Pinus mugo,Picea excelsa, andPinus abies. In the oleoresins 21 monoterpene and 22 sesquiterpene compounds were identified from their relative retention times and with the aid of additives. The main components of the volatile fractions of the oleoresins were - and -pinenes and 3-carene among the monoterpenes, and longifolene caryophyllene, - and -cadinenes and -murolene among the sesquiterpene compounds. The quantitative analysis of the fractions was carried out by the method of internal normalization from averaged correlation coefficients.Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 629–632, September–October, 1990.     

Acylation of salts of dinitromethane

Conclusions When the ambient anion of dinitromethane is reacted with acyl chlorides (acetyl or benzoyl chloride) the acylation of this anion occurs only at the oxygen atom, with the formation of the O-acyl derivatives of dinitromethane. The latter, being very reactive compounds, undergo a number of further transformations during the reaction process.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2045–2049, September, 1971.     

Structure of the products of the metabolism of deoxypeganine and of deoxyvasicinone

The structures of the main components of the total metabolites of the anticholinesterase drug deoxypeganine (DOP) and its analog deoxyvasicinone (DOV) in the rat organism have been studied. The structures of two metabolites of DOP and DOV — 11-hydroxydeoxyvasicinone and 2-(-ethoxycarbonyl)ethyl-4-quinazoline — have been determined by the PMR method. On the basis of their structures and the results of measurements of the elementary compositions of ions, the fragmentation of the compounds has been elucidated. A minor component of the total metabolites has been isolated by chromato-mass spectrometry and for it the structure of 6-methoxydide-hydrovasicinone is proposed. A scheme of the metabolism of DOP and DOV has been put forward.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 758–766, November–December, 1983.     

Determination of the sequence of monosaccharide units in acetates of N-arylglycosylamines of oligosaccharides

Conclusions It was shown for the mass spectra of acetates of N-arylglycosylamines of tri-, tetra-, and penta-saccharides that acetates of N-arylglycosylamines are the most convenient derivatives for the analysis of the structure of higher oligosaccharides by the mass spectrometric method.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1246–1253, June, 1973.     

Composition of the phospholipids of seeds of Cercis siliquastrum

The phospholipids of the polar lipids of the seeds of the Judas tree and the fatty-acid composition of the N-acylphosphatidylethanolamines, the phosphatidylcholines, and the phosphatidylethanolamines, and also the molecular-species types of the fatty acids of the phosphatidylcholines and the phosphatidylethanolamines have been studied. It has been established that the seeds of the Judas tree contain ten phospholipids. The main fatty acids are palmitic and oleic.I. V. Kutateladze Institute of Pharmacochemistry, Georgian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Nos. 3,4, pp. 320–323, May–August, 1992.     

Mononitration of derivatives of benzisatins

The mononitration of benz[e]-, benz[f]-, and benz[g]isatins and their tetrahydro derivatives was realized. It was established on the basis of an analysis of the ¹H NMR and mass spectra that substitution takes place at position 5 in the derivatives of the [g] series and at the position adjacent to the NH group in derivatives of the [f] series and in the case of 6,7,8,9-tetrahydrobenz [e]isatin. This reaction path corresponds to the maximum electron density in the HOMO, calculated by the CNDO method. In benz[e]isatin, contrary to the general relationship and to the quantum-chemical prediction, the nitro group initially enters the ring annellated with the indole ring.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 60–65, January, 1989.