The structures of new isotetracenone antibiotics,kerriamycins a,b and c

Based on ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectral analysis, the structures of kerriamycins A, B and C, new isotetracenone antibiotics, have been elucidated as shown in Fig. 1. Kerriamycin A contains a novel sugar, kerriose.     

[10b, 10c]Diazapyraceheptylene

The labile [10b, 10c]diazapyraceheptylene 1 was obtained by thermoflash dehydrogenation of a mixture of olefins 5a/b. The ¹H NMR spectrum indicates a strong influence of the 14π-electron periphery. A by-product of the synthesis of 1, i.e., pyrazino[2,1,6-cd:5,4,3-c′d′]dipyrrolizine 6, points to a rearrangement of the diazapyraceheptylene system, which may be frontier orbital controlled.     

Chengying Guo a,Yanmei Shi a,Siyu Lu c,Yifu Yu a,*, Bin Zhang a,b,#

电催化水分解产氢作为一种有前途的制氢技术被全世界研究者广泛关注.然而,此领域仍然缺少一种高效、无污染的催化剂,以降低能耗,提升反应动力学,进而推进电解水的实际应用.近年来研究发现,具有短程有序、长程无序特征的非晶纳米材料在电解水领域表现出极其优异的性能.有趣的是,固有的无序结构赋予了非晶纳米材料丰富的高活性位点.鉴于此,本文综述了非晶纳米材料的制备策略以及表征方法,并且对其高活性来源进行了系统地分析.此外,本文通过分析近几十年的研究成果指出了非晶纳米材料在电解水领域面临的挑战和应用前景.非晶纳米材料的合成方法主要分为两类:直接合成和间接合成.直接合成主要包括:电沉积、光化学金属-有机沉积、气溶胶-喷雾辅助法、反胶束溶胶-凝胶法、水热法、共沉淀法和氧化还原法.其中,气溶胶-喷雾辅助技术可以通过控制母液中金属离子的浓度精准地控制非晶纳米材料中各种金属元素的组成,从而有目的地调控并优化催化活性.间接合成主要分为原位转化和非原位转化.原位转化是指晶体材料在反应过程中表面会原位转化为非晶结构作为反应的真实活性物质.非原位转化是指当纳米材料尺度非常小时,高表面能将会破坏材料的结晶度得到非晶材料.另外,非晶材料长程无序的特点给其表征带来极大挑战.目前,对于非晶材料表征的一般流程是:首先通过X射线粉末衍射确定非晶结构,并通过透射电子显微镜以及扫描电子显微镜探索其形貌结构;再通过选区电子衍射以及高角度环形暗场扫描透射电子显微镜进一步确定非晶结构;然后,通过能谱、电感耦合等离子体发射光谱和X射线光电子能谱分析其化学组成及化学态;最后,采用拉曼光谱和同步辐射数据提供晶体结构信息.本文对非晶纳米材料高活性的起源进行了探究.在电解水领域,非晶纳米材料通常表现出优于晶体材料的性能.优异的活性与活性位点数量的增多以及活性位点活性的提升有关:(1)非晶纳米材料具有长程无序的特征,可以暴露更多活性位点,并且其表面存在的大量悬挂键也可以作为活性位点;(2)非晶纳米材料的活性位点可以拓展至催化剂体相内部,大幅提升了活性位点数量;(3)非晶纳米材料结构灵活性高,活性位点在催化反应过程中可以转变成任意形状,提升了活性位点的活性;(4)非晶纳米材料的高韧性和应变能力赋予其较高的稳定性.非晶纳米材料已广泛应用于电解水领域,但仍然存在一些问题:(1)非晶纳米材料由于原子级结构不确定,其电催化机理很难探究;(2)理论模拟作为研究电化学反应途径的有力工具很难应用于非晶纳米材料的研究;(3)随着无序程度的增加,活性位点数量和活性逐渐增加,但电导率逐渐下降.尽管如此,由于非晶纳米材料结构灵活性高和自重组能力快速,人们对其在电解水领域的研究兴趣越来越大,并且该领域显示出良好的应用前景,高效非晶纳米材料的设计合成及其催化机理的研究将成为今后研究的重点.     

Mono-, and dibenzacridine imines. Synthesis of 1a,11b- dihydrobenz[c]azirino[α]acridine, 4b,5a-dihydrodibenz[c,h]- azirino[α]acridine and 1a,13b-dihydrodibenz[c,j]azirino[α]acridine

The syntheses of the K-imine derivatives of benz[c]acridine, dibenz[c,h]acridine and dibenz[a,h]acridine are described. The parent hydrocarbons 1, 6 and 11 were oxidized with sodium hypochlorite under phase transfer conditions to the corresponding K-oxides 4,9 and 14 , which in turn were reacted with sodium azide. The resulting azido alcohols were then cyclized with tributylphosphine to the title compounds 5,10 and 15.     

ESR of triplet states of chlorophylls a,b, c1, c2 and bacteriochlorophyll a. Applications of ZFS and electron spin polarization to photosynthesis

ZFS parameters for the title chlorophylls in both ordinary and fully deuterated form have been determined under experimental conditions that allow the aggregation state of the chlorophylls to be specified. The triplet state spectra are polarized. The electron spin polarization (ESP) can be analyzed by a simple scheme, and is found to be sensitive to the aggregation state of the chlorophyll. Comparison of in vivo and in vitro bacteriochlorophyll spectra supports the chlorophyll special pair proposal for the structure of in vivo photo-reactive chlorophyll.     

Distribution of spatial polyhedra on coordination spheres in a b.c.c. lattice

In this paper we suggest a convenient algorithm of practical crystallography to correlate the index of a coordination sphere to the set of the filling polyhedra for simple cubic (s.c.) and body-centered cubic (b.c.c.) lattices. Any coordination sphere may be represented as a combination of seven polyhedra. We introduce here the notion of coordination spheres with, zero filling and derive a rule for going from the sphere numbering obtained in this way to the traditional one.Altai Polytechnical Institute. Translated fromZhurnal Struktornoi Khimii, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 107–111, July–August, 1993.Translated by T. Yudanova     

Triterpene glycosides ofHedera helix I. The structures of glycosides L-1, L-2a,L-2b,L-3, L-4a,L-4b,L-6a,L-6b,L-6c,L-7a,and L7-b from the leaves of common ivy

The leaves of common ivy have yielded 11 triterpene glycosides: the 3-O-α-L-pyranosides of oleanolic acid (1), of echinocystic acid (2), and of hederagenin; the 3-O-[O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→2)-α-L-arabinopyranoside]s of oleanolic acid (4), of echinocystic acid (5), and of hederagenin (6); the O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→4)-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester of hederagenin 3-O-α-L-pyranoside (7); the O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl ester of hederagenin 3-O-[O-α-L-pyranosyl-(1→2)-α-L-arabinopyranoside] (9); and the O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→4)-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl esters of oleanolic acid, echinocystic acid, and hederagenin 3-O-[O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside]s (8), (10), and (11), respectively. This is the first time that compounds (1), (2), (5), (7), (9), and (10) have been found in this plant. Simferopol' State University. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 742–746, November–December, 1994.     

Total synthesis of the marine alkaloids (-)-lepadins a, b, and c based on stereocontrolled intramolecular acylnitroso-Diels-Alder reaction

The first syntheses of (-)-lepadins A and C, as well as a new synthesis of (-)-lepadin B, have been achieved from commercially available (S)-malic acid. The methodology is based on an intramolecular hetero-Diels--Alder reaction of the acylnitroso compound, affording the bicyclic oxazino lactam with trans selectivity, which was converted to the cis-decahydroquinoline via asymmetric enolate hydroxylation followed by intramolecular aldol cyclization. The total syntheses proceed by employing cis-decahydroquinoline bearing the (E)-iodoalkenyl group as the common key intermediate, which underwent a convergent coupling with the (E)-hexenyl unit via a palladium-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling reaction for the elaboration of the octadienyl side chain at the C5 position.     

α,ω-Diisocyanatocarbodiimides, -Polycarbodiimides,and Their Derivatives

Research in the field of low-molecular weight, oligomeric and polymeric α,ω-diisocyanatocarbodiimides and -polycarbodiimides has been fruitful, not only in connection with these compounds themselves, but also—as so often happens in chemistry—with quite different problems. Novel synthetic methods, discoveries concerning the properties of low-molecular weight carbodiimides and phosphane imide derivatives, as well as results on the fragmentation reactions of four-membered heterocyclic compounds containing oxygen, phosphorus, and nitrogen, and a better understanding of the diisocyanate polyaddition process are among the many by-products of this research. The “high- and low-temperature formation” of polycarbodiimides and the homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis of this process are described, and the fundamental importance of four-membered ring fragmentation mechanisms resulting in the formation of phosphane imide derivatives is outlined. Interesting building blocks for the diisocyanate polyaddition and polycondensation processes can be synthesized by many derivatization reactions of oligomeric and high-molecular weight polycarbodiimides and polyuretonimines. The in situ production of polycarbodiimides via matrix reactions in flexible polyurethane foams leads to a cellular arrangement of the material due to the pronounced symmetrical growth processes. Combination-foams with increased carbonation tendencies are formed in this way. Attention is drawn to several industrial applications of α,ω-diisocyanatopolycarbodiimides, of high-molecular weight cross-linked polyuretonimines, and of polycarbodiimide foams.     

Triterpene glycosides ofHedera helix I. The structures of glycosides L-1, L-2a, L-2b, L-3, L-4a, L-4b, L-6a, L-6b, L-6c, L-7a, and L7-b from the leaves of common ivy

The leaves of common ivy have yielded 11 triterpene glycosides: the 3-O--L-pyranosides of oleanolic acid (1), of echinocystic acid (2), and of hederagenin; the 3-O-[O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(12)--L-arabinopyranoside]s of oleanolic acid (4), of echinocystic acid (5), and of hederagenin (6); the O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(14)-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(16)-O--D-glucopyranosyl ester of hederagenin 3-O--L-pyranoside (7); the O--D-glucopyranosyl-(16)-O--D-glucopyranosyl ester of hederagenin 3-O-[O--L-pyranosyl-(12)--L-arabinopyranoside] (9); and the O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(14)-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(16)-O--D-glucopyranosyl esters of oleanolic acid, echinocystic acid, and hederagenin 3-O-[O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(12)--D-glucopyranoside]s (8), (10), and (11), respectively. This is the first time that compounds (1), (2), (5), (7), (9), and (10) have been found in this plant.Simferopol' State University. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 742–746, November–December, 1994.     

胆二烯a、b的光异构化

取胆二烯a、b的模型化合物,中胆紫素,放在一些不含氧的溶剂中进行光照,根据光照前后的吸收光谱和核磁共振氢谱分析,在光照达到平衡以后,其构型可能由比较关闭的螺环型变成比较张开的伸展型,C-10位上的双键由Z型变成E型。     

Synthesis of oryzalexins a,b and c,the diterpenoidal phytoalexins isolated from rice blast leaves infected with pyricularia oryzae

Naturally occurring enantiomers of three diterpenes isolated as phytoalexins from rice blast leaves were synthesized: (+)-oryzalexin.A [ent-3β-hydroxyisopimara-8(14),15-dien-7-one, 1], (+)-oryzalexin B [ent-7α-hydroxyisopimara-8(14),15-dien-3-one, 2] and (+)-oryzalexin C [ent-isopimara-8(14),15-diene-3,7-dione, 3]. Their antipodes were also synthesized.