Room-temperature ferroelectricity and gigantic dielectric susceptibility on a supramolecular architecture of phenazine and deuterated chloranilic acid

Ferroelectricity and large dielectric constant at room temperature have been demonstrated for cocrystals of phenazine and anilic acids constructing supramolecular assemblies. Deuteration of the anilic acids gives rise to an increase by more than 50 K in the transition temperature, which exceeds room temperature for the deuterated chloranilic acid. At room temperature in air, the crystals show a clear polarization hysteresis with a small coercive field. Application of hydrostatic pressure and halogen substitution in the anilic acids bring about the structural effect on the transition temperature in a parallel way, whereas the deuterium substitution does this in a distinct way. The observed large deuteration effect cannot be elucidated by the geometric change of the hydrogen bond, which has been considered as the possible mechanism of ferroelectricity in the conventional hydrogen-bonded with double-well potential.     

全氟和多氟烷基磺酸的研究 IX. 5-卤-3-氧杂-全氟戊磺酰氟的化学转化

5-Halo-3-oxa-perfluoropentanesulfonic acids 2,4 were obtained in high yields by treating the corresponding sulfonyl fluorides successively with KOH and concentrated H2SO4: Treatment of the acids with P2O5 gave corresponding anhydrides 3, 5. 3 reacted with various alcohols in the presence of pyridine to yield sulfonates 6. 5-Iodo-3-oxa-perfluoropentanesulfonyl fluoride (1) was converted to the acyl fluoride 9 by fuming sulfuric acid. Depending on the reaction temperature 9 can be hydrolyzed to fluorosulfonyl perfluoroalkanoic acid 10 and/or mixed dibasic acid 11. A similar phenomenon was also observed in the case of hydrolysis of fluorocarbonyl-perfluoromethanesulfonyl fluoride(13). Alcohol reacted readily with the acyl fluoride group but not with the sulfonyl group in 9 giving carboxylic esters, which can be further transformed to the corresponding sulfonates. Perfluoroalkoxide ion -O(CF2)2O(CF2)2SO2F prepared from 9 and F- reacted with active alkyl halides yielding the corresponding ethers. The interaction of 5-halo-3-oxa-perfluoroalkane-sulfonyl fluoride with AlCl3 was investigated. Friedel-crafts acylation of aromatic compounds with 9 in the presence of anhydrous AlCl3 is also reported. The yields of the desired ketones can be improved by using CCl4 as a solvent and changing the order of addition of reactants.     

Facile approach to diverse range of 1,3-diaza-heterocycles: angular/linear selectivity paradigm and a remarkable intramolecular methyl migration

Starting from cyclic anhydrides and tert-butyl 2-aminobenzylcarbamate, simple and efficient synthesis of diverse range of kinetically controlled angular and thermodynamically controlled linear tricyclic and tetracyclic 1,3-diaza-heterocycles have been described via the intramolecular cyclizations of the corresponding imides/anilic acid esters. The effect of imide stability on the angular/linear product selectivity has also been described. The kinetically controlled angular products were successfully transformed to the corresponding thermodynamically controlled linear products by refluxing in methanol or methanol and acetic acid mixture. An interesting in situ 1,2-intramolecular methyl group migration has also been described.     

Amino acid dependent formation of phosphate anhydrides in water mediated by carbonyl sulfide

Carbonyl sulfide (COS), a component of volcanic gas emissions and interstellar gas clouds, is shown to be an efficient condensing agent in the context of phosphate chemistry in aqueous solutions. We report that high-energy aminoacyl-phosphate anhydrides and aminoacyl adenylates are generated in solutions containing amino acids, COS, and the corresponding phosphate molecule. We further show that the mixed anhydrides of amino acids and inorganic phosphate are phosphorylating agents, producing pyrophosphate in better than 30% yield in the presence of Ca2+ precipitates. The amino acid dependent activations of phosphate reported here, which occur in parallel with the production of peptides, suggest that these two reactions may have shared a common intermediate on the prebiotic Earth.     

Cyanuric chloride: decent dehydrating agent for an exclusive and efficient synthesis of kinetically controlled isomaleimides

Starting from maleanilic and maleamic acids, a facile general approach to kinetically controlled isomaleimides has been described for the first time using cyanuric chloride as a dehydrating agent with 85-98% yields. The effect of a variety of substituents present on the aromatic ring in amine and maleic anhydride moiety, on these kinetic/thermodynamic dehydration processes of anilic acids has been also described. Under the same set of reaction conditions the phthalanilic acid gave kinetically controlled product, isophtalimide in 91% yield, while the corresponding succinanilic acid furnished the thermodynamically more stable succinimide in high yield.     

Products from dehydration of dicarboxylic acids derived from anthranilic acid

Treatment of N-(carboxymethyl)-anthranilic acids 1 with several dehydrating agents, gave the cyclic ortho amides 6, or the 7-membered anhydrides 7. After reaction of N-(carboxymethyl)-anthranilic acid (1a) with acetic anhydride, a diacetylated fused diketopiperazine indole dimer (18) could be isolated. Dehydrations of 2,2'-iminobis-benzoic acid led to the corresponding cyclic ortho amides 23. The dynamic behaviour of some of these compounds, and their precursors, was studied.     

Synthese von Phosphorsäureesterchloriden,Phosphinsäurechloriden,Diphosphorsäuretetraestern und Phosphinsäureanhydriden durch gemeinsame Einwirkung von Triphenylphosphin/Tetrachlorkohlenstoff auf Phosphorsäureester und Phosphinsäuren

Synthesis of Phosphoric Acid Ester Chlorides, Phosphinic Acid Chlorides, Diphosphoric Acid Tetraesters, and Phosphinic Acid Anhydrides by Action of the System Triphenylphosphine/Carbon Tetrachloride on Phosphoric Acid Esters and Phosphinic Acids Phosphoric acid mono- and diesters and phosphinic acids react with triphenylphosphine/carbon tetrachloride to acid chlorides or corresponding acid anhydrides. In presence of triethylamine only acid anhydrides can be obtained.     

Determination of aliphatic anhydrides and acids by reversed-phase liquid chromatography

Few chromatography methods have been reported for the determination of anhydrides in mixtures or as mixed anhydrides. The potential reactivity of anhydrides with water and other common eluent components complicates possible schemes for separation and analysis. By optimizing variables that affect hydrolysis, including the stationary phase, conditions can be found to successfully analyze anhydrides as reactive as acetic anhydride. The corresponding acids can be determined at the same time. The effect of the stationary phase on anhydride hydrolysis rates may prove to be a sensitive means of probing stationary phase chemistry.     

Convenient green preparation of dipeptides using unprotected α-amino acids

Dipeptides and amides were obtained in high yields from N-carbobenzyloxy α-amino acids and 3-phenylpropanoic acid with unprotected α-amino acids via the corresponding mixed carbonic carboxylic anhydrides using ethyl chloroformate and triethylamine by an ecological and convenient method in which the protection of C-terminals is not needed.     

Use of organic reagents in inorganic analysis

Summary Seven anilic acids obtained from phthalic anhydride and aromatic amines were studied for their quantitative precipitating action on zirconium. The anilic acids from p-toluidine, m- and p-nitranilines and -naphthylamine were only found effective for the quantitative determination of zirconium. Zirconium is completely precipitated at a little lowerph value with these reagents, than thorium. Compositions of the zirconium salts of these acids are not definite, so ignition of the precipitates to zirconia is necessary. Separation of zirconium from common elements like Cu, Al, Cr, Mg, Zn, Ti etc. may be done with ease. But for iron, uranium, cobalt and nickel double precipitation is essential. A considerable amount of thorium has been separated from zirconium, by extraction with amylacetate.     

用裂解色谱法鉴定羧酸酯的结构

研究了用裂解气相色谱法鉴定羧酸酯结构的方法。对一些一元酸酯和二元酸酯进行了普通裂解和与碱石灰混合后的裂解,依据裂解产物可确定酯的母体酸和母体醇。直接从薄层板上取分离后的组分,不用去除吸附剂就能进行鉴定,可用于常见羧酸酯的剖析工作。     

Early Physical Organic Chemistry: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin (1842–1907) and Reaction Velocities

The name of Menshutkin is most frequently associated with his eponymous reaction (the quaternization of tertiary amines with alkyl halides). However, he made encyclopedic contributions to the field of reaction kinetics, where he carried out extensive studies of the effects of reactant structure on the rates of esterification of monohydric, dihydric and trihydric alcohols with monocarboxylic acids, and monobasic and dibasic carboxylic acids and anhydrides with monohydric alcohols. In these studies, he deduced an order of reactivity of alcohols in esterification on the basis of their reactions with acetic acid, and the effects of acid structure on the rates of esterification based on the reaction of the carboxylic acid with isobutyl alcohol. When his attention later turned to the substitution chemistry of amines, he defined the parameters that affected their reactions: anilines were less reactive than alkylamines, secondary more reactive than primary amines, and the reaction was accelerated by replacing benzene as a solvent with alcohols. The wide-ranging work of Menshutkin, the physical organic chemist, is discussed.     

N-hydroxypeptides. I. Preparation of N-benzyloxy-α-amino acid anhydrides and their use in peptide synthesis

N-Benzyloxy-DL-α-amino acids are transformed with phosgen to N-benzyloxy-DL-α-amino acid anhydrides which react smoothly with the amino component of peptides to give the corresponding N-benzyloxypeptides.     

An alkaloid-mediated desymmetrization of meso-anhydrides via a nucleophilic ring opening with benzyl alcohol and its application in the synthesis of highly enantiomerically enriched β-amino acids

The cinchona alkaloid-mediated opening of prochiral cyclic anhydrides in the presence of benzyl alcohol leading to optically active hemiesters is described. Structurally diverse anhydrides are converted into their corresponding benzyl monoesters with either enantiomer being obtained with up to 99% e.e. by using quinine or quinidine as the directing additive. A simple aqueous work-up protocol permits the isolation of the products in analytically pure form and the recovery of the alkaloids almost quantitatively. These hemiesters can be converted to N-protected β-amino esters by means of Curtius degradation of the corresponding acyl azides. Subsequent cleavage of both protecting groups by a single reaction step leads to the free β-amino acids in excellent yields. The efficiency of this procedure is demonstrated by the short asymmetric synthesis of the fungicide cis-pentacin delivering the amino acid with >99.7% enantiomeric excess.     

Derivatives for separation of amino acid enantiomers

Summary An optimum gas chromatographic separation of all protein amino acids in one run on capillaries coated with Chirasil-Val is difficult to achieve. Overlap of enantiomers of different amino acids may occur because the relative retention times depend upon the overall polarity of the stationary phase, the film thickness and the actual temperature programm. Employment of different derivatives formed by esterification with isopropanol, n-propanol, isobutanol and n-butanol and by acylation with trifluoroacetic, pentafluoropropionic and heptafluorobutyric anhydrides yields patterns of relative elution of all amino acid enantiomers. Thus, even critical pairs of amino acid enantiomers can be separated or shifted in their relative retention times. All amino acid enantiomers can be separated and quantitatively estimated.     

Solid‐state 13C NMR study on thermal dehydration process of poly(methacrylic acid)(PMAA)

Thermal dehydration process of PMAA was investigated by solid‐state ¹³C NMR. For heat‐treated PMAA at 150°C, at which the dehydration goes very slowly, we observed three ¹³C peaks at 172, 178, and 187 ppm in the carboxyl group region. The peak at 172 ppm is due to the intramolecular cyclic anhydrides by comparing the reported value of ¹³C chemical shift. The peaks at 178 and 187 ppm were assigned to regularly aligned free carboxylic acids and intermolecular acid dimers, respectively, from the 2D‐exchange ¹³C NMR spectra, ¹³C chemical shift values and IR spectra. We concluded that by heat‐treatment the rearrangement of intermolecular hydrogen bonding of the carboxylic acids in PMAA occurs firstly to form the regularly aligned acid dimers, and the dimers dissociated to be the regularly aligned free carboxylic acids at high temperatures. The adjacent free carboxyl acids dehydrate with each other, resulting in the formation of intramolecular anhydrides. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 37: 2007–2012, 1999     

Scandium Trifluoromethanesulfonate as an Extremely Active Lewis Acid Catalyst in Acylation of Alcohols with Acid Anhydrides and Mixed Anhydrides

Scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate), which is commercially available, is a practical and useful Lewis acid catalyst for acylation of alcohols with acid anhydrides or the esterification of alcohols by carboxylic acids in the presence of p-nitrobenzoic anhydrides. The remarkably high catalytic activity of scandium triflate can be used for assisting the acylation by acid anhydrides of not only primary alcohols but also sterically-hindered secondary or tertiary alcohols. The method presented is especially effective for selective macrolactonization of omega-hydroxy carboxylic acids.     

DNA-bound lipids: computer modeling of DNA interaction with stearic acid and unsaturated fatty acids

It was shown for the first time by computer experiments that fatty acids are strongly bound to DNA. This is consistent with the presence of free fatty acids in the specimens of DNA-bound lipids isolated from various cells. Binding of all fatty acids to the DNA minor groove is stronger than to the major groove, which is correlated with the presence of two pools of free fatty acids isolated from DNA specimens by biochemical methods. Since DNA polymerase is also bound to the DNA minor groove, fatty acids can play an important role in the regulation mechanism of DNA replication and signal transmission. The energy of interaction of fatty acids with DNA depends on both the number of double bonds and the geometric configuration of the fatty acid and the nucleotide composition of DNA. Dependence on the bond energy in the DNA—fatty acid complex on the nucleotide composition attests to the possibility of site-specific binding of lipids to DNA. On passing from a saturated fatty acid to unsaturated acids containing one, two, or three double trans-bonds, the bond energy of DNA with the fatty acid gradually decreases. The presence of one or three double cis-bonds results in weakening of the strength of the DNA—fatty acid complexes compared to those with the saturated acid. The strongest binding between DNA and fatty acid was found for the unsaturated acid with two double cis-bonds (linoleic). This can be explained by the fact that the bent (boomerang) shape of the molecule of this acid follows the curve of the DNA helix. The pattern of variation of the energy of DNA complexes with stearic, linoleic, oleic, and linolenic acids correlates with experimental data on the melting points of these complexes: the more stable the DNA—fatty acid complex, the lower the melting point of DNA.     

Colorimetric determination of organic compounds by formation of hydroxamic acids

Carboxylic acids, their chlorides, anhydrides, esters, lactones, amides, lactams and imides react with hydroxylamine to give hydroxamic acids which are then treated with iron(III). Other compounds or groups of compounds can also be determined after a prior conversion into hydroxylamine-reactive derivatives. The calorimetric applications of these reactions are reviewed. The effect of various factors is discussed. A selective procedure for determination of acid chlorides and anhydrides and an improved procedure for determination of carboxylic esters and lactones are presented.     

The first asymmetric esterification of free carboxylic acids with racemic alcohols using benzoic anhydrides and tetramisole derivatives: an application to the kinetic resolution of secondary benzylic alcohols

A variety of optically active carboxylic esters are produced by the kinetic resolution of racemic secondary benzylic alcohols using free carboxylic acids with benzoic anhydride and tetramisole derivatives. 4-Methoxybenzoic anhydride (PMBA) is the best reagent to use in producing the corresponding esters in high ee when the reaction is catalyzed by (+)-benzotetramisole (BTM); by contrast, when non-substituted benzoic anhydride is used as a coupling reagent, the resulting optically active alcohols are obtained with high selectivities. This protocol directly produces chiral carboxylic esters from free carboxylic acids and racemic secondary alcohols by utilizing the trans-acylation process to generate mixed anhydrides from acid components and benzoic anhydride derivatives under the influence of chiral catalysts.