Easy α- to β-migration of an enol moiety on a pyrrole ring

Functionalized pyrrolic enols, 2-(2,2-dicyano-1-hydroxyethenyl)-1-methylpyrroles, synthesized from 2-ethenylpyrroles by a nucleophilic SEt-OH exchange, upon heating (75-142 °C) are readily rearranged to their 3-isomers in near to quantitative yield. The inter or intramolecular auto-protonation of a pyrrole ring by the acidic enol hydroxyl to form a mesomeric pyrrolium cation or zwitterion is suggested to be a key step in the rearrangement.     

X-ray diffraction studies of the state of components in Pt?Ce/Al2O3 catalysts

X-ray diffraction studies of supported Ce/Al₂O₃ and Pt–Ce/Al₂O₃ catalysts have shown that besides a bulk phase CeO₂ a product of the interaction with the support cerium aluminate having a perovskite structure, is usually formed. Platinum in unreduced modified samples forms an oxide and is statistically distributed in the perovskite phase of cerium aluminate. After reduction, only half of the metal is in the metallic state with a particle size of 10 Å.

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The isometric immersion of strongly parabolic metrics in the class of strongly parabolic surfaces

It is known that a k-strongly parabolic surface in Euclidean space (index of relative nullity is at least k) inherits a k-strongly parabolic metric (index of nullity is at least k). For the definitions of the index of relative nullity (x) and the index of nullity (x) see Sh. Kobayashi and K. Nomizu, Foundations of Differential Geometry, Interscience Publishers, New York (1969), Vol. II, pp. 347–348. The converse is not true. In particular, there exists an analytic, three-dimensional, 1-strongly parabolic metric that does not admit a local isometric immersion into Euclidean space of any dimension in the class of three-dimensional 1-strongly parabolic surfaces. The proof is carried out with the help of the method of exterior Cartan forms.Translated from Ukrainskii Geometricheskii Sbornik, No. 33, pp. 27–37, 1990.     

NMR spectra of paramagnetic complexes of 1-vinylimidazole with iron group metals

The high-resolution ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectra of 1-vinylimidazole complexes with iron group metals were recorded. The contact coupling in these systems was established in the ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectra. The applicability of the NMR spectra transformed by long-range hyperfine coupling for elucidating the molecular structure of the ligand was shown. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1430–1433, June, 2005.     

Formation enthalpies of rare earth titanate pyrochlores

High-temperature oxide melt solution calorimetry and Rietveld refinements of powder X-ray diffraction data were used to investigate the structure (Fd3m; Z=8) and energetics of a series of RE₂Ti₂O₇ (RE=Sm-Lu) compounds with the pyrochlore structure as well as La₂Ti₂O₇ with a layered perovskite-type structure. All of the RE-titanates were found to be stable in enthalpy with respect to their oxides. In the pyrochlore series, Lu₂Ti₂O₇ was least stable in enthalpy (ΔHf-ox at 298 K=−56.0±4.0 kJ/mol); the most stable materials were Gd-, Eu-, and Sm₂Ti₂O₇ with ΔHf-ox at 298 K=−113.4±2.7, −106.1±4.2, −115.4±4.2 kJ/mol, respectively. In general, as the radius ratio of the A- to B-site cations, R_A/R_B, decreases, the pyrochlore structure becomes less stable. The trend of ionic radius of the RE³⁺ cation vs. ΔHf-ox at 298 K is non-linear and approximately parallels the increasing “resistance” to ion-beam-induced amorphization as R_A/R_B decreases.     

New complexes of triethanolamine N-oxide with metal salts

Russian Chemical Bulletin - New potentially pharmacologically active complexes of general formula n[(HOCH2CH2)3N—O]·MX2 (M = Zn, Co, Ni, Cu; X = Cl, MeCO2, ArOCH2CO2; n = 1, 2) were...     

Expedient Strategy for the Synthesis of 5-Acylethynylpyrrole-2-carbaldehydes

5-Acylethynylpyrrole-2-carbaldehydes have been synthesized from the protected pyrrole-2-carbaldehydes by their transition-metal-free topochemical mechanoactivated ethynylation with acylbromoacetylenes in a solid Al₂O₃ medium (room temperature, 6 h, 41–54% yields).     

Four-component stereoselective synthesis of tetracyano-substituted piperidines

Research on Chemical Intermediates - A novel four-component stereoselective synthesis of polysubstituted piperidines is reported. The Knoevenagel–Michael–Mannich cascade of two...