Cinchona based squaramide catalysed enantioselective Michael addition of α-nitrophosphonates to aryl acrylates: enantioselective synthesis of quaternary α-aminophosphonates

Several cinchona based squaramide catalysts were applied to the asymmetric Michael addition of α-nitroethylphosphonates to acrylic acid aryl esters, resulting in high yields and enantioselectivities. The absolute configuration of one of the quaternary α-nitrophosphonate adducts was deduced from its experimental and calculated CD spectra. The adducts were reduced to their cyclic aminophosphonates by catalytic hydrogenation.     

Examination of proliferation of probiotic microbes by isoperibolic calorimetry

Due to the increasing consumers’ interest in up-to-date nutrition nowadays the production of main part of fermented dairy products (e.g. yogurt, kefir) is performed using probiotic microbes. The majority of this product group are the flavoured variations, the sweetener is, first of all, still refined sugar (e.g. saccharose). Honey of natural origin, consequently preferred from the nutrition-physiological point of view, could be proposed to replace this refined carbohydrate. To check its availability for this purpose the growth of microbes of the Hungarian culture of trade name Prebiolact-2 was examined. The probiotic properties of the culture are proved by clinical tests. At the determination of recipes of control and experimental samples we took into consideration that the milk composition and carbohydrate content of samples should have been the same, and they could differ only in carbohydrate-free component content of honey. During processing of the samples the minimum heat-treatment was applied to protect the biologically active components of honey to the greatest degree. Pasteurized-homogenized milk was used as raw material, in which granulated sugar and the honeys were solved, respectively, at 60 °C. The inoculation was made by Prebiolact-2 culture injected into the batch-wessel; the closed cells were agitated intensively for 10 s. General conclusion of thermal investigation is that the proliferation rate is longer lasting in case of honey treated milks. The acacia- honey resulted in the same probiotic proliferation as sugar did. In case of other herb-honeys the effect was smaller, very probably because of the strong bactericidal effect of herbs, which is very important from medical point of view. According to the results of the consumer survey over 85 % of them think that the consumption of herbs in the form of honey is especially beneficial from both dietary and market view.     

Strong influence of intramolecular Si⋯O proximity on reactivity: Systematic molecular structure,solvolysis, and mechanistic study of cyclic N-trimethylsilyl carboxamide derivatives

A comparative alcoholysis study of N-silylated derivatives of simple heterocyclic carboxamides (lactams, imides, ureas) is presented. The second-order rate constant values span a range as wide as three orders of magnitude. On the basis of DFT calculations, a good correlation between reactivity and the Si?O distance was found within each family of compounds. The viability of two different reaction pathways was evaluated using a detailed computational mechanistic study of the methanolysis of cyclic urea homologues. Peculiarities in the single-crystal X-ray diffraction structures of the trimethylsilyl and trimethylsiloxy phthalimides are also discussed.     

Every Moufang loop of odd order with nontrivial commutant has nontrivial center

We get a partial result for Phillips’ problem: does there exist a Moufang loop of odd order with trivial nucleus? First we show that a Moufang loop Q of odd order with nontrivial commutant has nontrivial nucleus, then, by using this result, we prove that the existence of a nontrivial commutant implies the existence of a nontrivial center in Q. Introducing the notion of commutantly nilpotence, we get that the commutantly nilpotence is equivalent to the centrally nilpotence for the Moufang loops of odd order.     

Chemoselective Suzuki–Miyaura reactions of 4-trifluoromethylsulfonyloxy-6-bromocoumarin

Suzuki–Miyaura reactions of 4-trifluoromethylsulfonyloxy-6-bromocoumarin provide a convenient access to arylated coumarins. The reactions proceed with excellent chemoselectivity in favour of position 4.     

DIHALOCARBENE ADDITION TO ARYLSUBSTTTUTED VINYL PHOSPHATES UNDER PHASE TRANSFER CATALYTIC CONDITIONS

Abstract

Dihalocarbene addition to aryl-substituted vinyl phosphates was carried out both in solid-liquid and in liquid-liquid two phase systems. The dihalocyclopropane adducts of vinyl phosphates could be obtained in better yield using dihalocarbenes generated by the latter method and no hydrolysis of the vinyl phosphate and of the adduct occurred under these circumstances. Eighteen new vinyl phosphate-dihalocarbene adducts were synthetized and characterized.