β,β-Dimethylacrylic acid

A method has been developed for obtaining ,-dimethylacrylic acid from 3-methylbut-3-en-1-ol — a multitonnage product of the production of isoprene by the Prins method.Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, Erevan. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 313–314, May–June, 1991.     

Synthesis of β-Fluoroalkyl-β,β-dimethoxy Ketones and β-Fluoroalkyl-β-methoxy-α,β-enones

α-Bromo-β-fluoroalkyl-α,β-enones react with sodium methoxide in methanol to give the corresponding β-fluoroalkyl-β,β-dimethoxy ketones which eliminate methanol molecule to produce a mixture of E/Z-isomeric β-fluoroalkyl-β-methoxyvinyl ketones, the Z isomer prevailing.     

Synthesis and reactivity of alkenyl- and alkynyl-substituted β,β-dihalo-and β,β,β-trichloroamines

β,β-Dihalo- and β,β,β-trichloroamines, obtained by Lewis acid-promoted Petasis-type reaction of α,α-dichlorinated and α,α,α-trichlorinated imines or reduction of α,α-dihaloaldimines, were subjected to a reactivity study and turned out to be remarkably stable compounds. In general, only the bases KO^tBu and NaOMe cause a 1,2-dehydrochlorination with formation of unsaturated α-chloroimines or unsaturated α,α-dichloroimines. Hydrolysis of the α-chloroimines with aqueous oxalic acid resulted in the formation of the corresponding unsaturated α-chloroketones. The reaction of simple β,β-dihaloamines with NaOMe and KO^tBu generated 2-haloprop-2-enylmines and 2,2-dimethoxypropylamines.     

β,β-Difluoro analogs of α-oxo-β-phenylpropionic acid and phenylalanine

A simple three-step procedure converted the readily accessible (2-bromo-1,1-difluoroethyl)arenes (2) into α-aryl-α,α-difluoroacetaldehydes (1). Subsequent hydrocyanation, hydrolysis, oxidation and again hydrolysis afforded β-aryl-β,β-difluoro-α-oxopropionic acids (3). Reductive amination transformed the oxoacids 3 into a separable mixture of α-hydroxyacids 11 and racemic β,β-difluoro-β-phenylalanine derivatives (4). Enantiomerically pure β,β-difluorophenylalanine (l-4a) was obtained when α,α-difluoro-α-phenylacet-aldehyde (1a) was condensed with homochiral 1-phenylethylamine, hydrogen cyanide added to the resulting imine, the diastereomeric mixture thus produced hydrolyzed to the carboxamides (15) which were found to be separable by fractional crystallization or chromatography. The pK_a values of the β-aryl-β,β-difluoroalanines (4) were measured and biological profile of the latter probed. 3-(4-Chlorophenyl)-3,3-difluoro-2-oxopropionic acid (4c) proved to be a potent (K_i 27 μM) and selective inhibitor of arogenate dehydratase, a key enzyme catalyzing the last step of the phenylalanine biosynthesis.     

β,β-Dinitro derivatives ofN-alkyl-N′-alkoxydiazene-N-oxides

Methods of synthesis ofN-alkyl-N-alkoxydiazene-N-oxides containing a carbonyl group in the -position of alkyl or alkoxy radicals were developed. ,-Dinitro derivatives ofN-alkyl-N-alkoxydiazene-N-oxides were synthesized for the first timevia nitration of oximes obtained from the ketones.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1534–1538, August, 1995.     

Synthesis of 15β, 16β-methyleneprogesterone

15,16-Methyleneprogesterone was produced from 15,16-methylene-3-hydroxyandrost-5-en-17-one with Wittig olefination of 17-ketone by methoxymethylenetriphenylphosphorane as the key stage.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 203–207, January, 1993.     

Stereoisomerism ofβ-polyfluoroalkyl-α,β-enones

-Polyfluoroalkyl-,-enones formed in the E,Z form are converted by the action of atmospheric oxygen into a 937 mixture of E,Z and Z,E isomers in the dark and 6040 mixture of these isomers in the light. The Z isomer of 1-phenyl-4,4, 4-trifluoro-2-buten-1-one was isolated preparatively for the first time and its E conformation relative to the C-C bond was established. The Z,E isomer spontaneously transforms into the indicated equilibrium mixtures.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1685–1689, July, 1991.     

β,β′-Linked cofacial bis-porphyrins

The copper(II) porphyrin 1, bearing a fused methylenepropano ring, undergoes an unusual self-sensitized photo-oxygenation reaction in the presence of DBU to give a high yield of a cofacial bis-porphyrin 7 under very mild conditions. The structures of compounds 1 and 7 were confirmed by X-ray crystallography.     

Synthesis of esters of α-chloroacetoxy-β,β,β,-trichloroethylphosphonic acids

Summary The synthesis of 11 previously unreported dialkyl esters of -mono-, -di-, and -trichloroacetoxy-,,-trichloroethylphosphonic acids has been effected.     

β-Dicarbonyl compounds

Summary The presence of alkali suppresses the oxidative rearrangement of 2-acylcycloalkanones and favors the process of oxidative cleavage which occurs simultaneously.     

β-环糊精与两性表面活性剂相互作用β

用表面张力法研究了β-环糊精与十一烷基酰胺甲酸钠(C11H23CONHCOONa,SF)两性表面活性剂在不同温度下的包结作用。结果表明:SF的表面张力值(β)及表观临界胶束浓度(cmc)加入β-CD后增加,β-CD浓度越大,γ和cmc增加越多,且SF的cmc与β-CD浓度存在线性关系,随温度的升高,两性表面活性剂的表面张力值降低,意味着它们的表面活性随温度升高而增强。利用表面张力测定了β-CD-SF体系在不同温度下的包结形成常数Ka,进而求得了包结过程的焓变和熵变,结果表明,该过程是焓和熵均有利的过程,进一步说明疏水作用是形成包结物最重要的的作用力之一。