Catalytic, asymmetric synthesis of α,α-disubstituted amino acids

Copper(salen) complex 1 has been found to catalyse the asymmetric alkylation of enolates derived from a variety of amino acids. There is a clear relationship between the size of the side chain in the substrate and the enantioselectivity of the process, so that the enantioselectivity decreases in the order alanine>aminobutyric acid>allylglycine>leucine>phenylalanine>valine. A transition state model which accounts for the influence of the size of the side chain on the enantioselectivity of the reactions is presented.     

Site-specific detection of S-nitrosylated PKB alpha/Akt1 from rat soleus muscle using CapLC-Q-TOF(micro) mass spectrometry

Protein Kinase Balpha(PKBalpha, or Akt1) is believed to play a crucial role in programmed cell death, cancer progression and the insulin-signaling cascade. The protein is activated by phosphorylation at multiple sites and subsequently phosphorylates and activates eNOS. Free cysteine residues of the protein may capture reactive, endogenously produced nitric oxide (NO) as S-nitrosothiols. Site-specific detection of S-nitrosylated cysteine residues, usually at low stoichiometry, has been a major challenge in proteomic research largely due to the lack of mass marker for S-nitrosothiols that are very labile under physiologic conditions. In this report we describe a sensitive and specific MS method for detection of S-nitrosothiols in PKB alpha/Akt1 in rat soleus muscle. PKB alpha/Akt1 was isolated by immunoprecipitation and 2D-gel electrophoresis, subjected to in-gel tryptic digestion, and cysteinyl nitrosothiols were reacted with iodoacetic acids [2-C(12)/C(13) = 50/50] under ascorbate reduction conditions. This resulted in the production of relatively stable carboxymethylcysteine (CMC) immonium ions (m/z 134.019 and m/z 135.019) within a narrow argon collision energy (CE = 30 +/- 5 V) in the high MS noise region. In addition, free and disulfide-linked cysteine residues were converted to carboxyamidomethylcysteines (CAM). Tryptic S-nitrosylated parent ion was detected with a mass accuracy of 50 mDa for the two CMC immonium ions at the triggered elution time during capillary liquid chromatography (LC) separation. A peptide containing Cys(296) was discriminated from four co-eluting tryptic peptides under lock mass conditions (m/z 785.8426). S-nitrosothiol in the tryptic peptide, ITDFGLBKEGIK (B: CAM, [M + 2H](2+) = 690.86, Found: 690.83), is believed to be present at a very low level, since the threshold for the CMC immonium trigger ions was set at 3 counts/s in the MS survey. The high levels of NO that are produced under stress conditions may result in increased S-nitrosylation of Cys(296) which blocks disulfide bond formation between Cys(296) and Cys(310) and suppresses the biological effects of PKB alpha/Akt1. With the procedures developed here, this process can be studied under physiological and pathological conditions.     

Convenient syntheses of isomaltose derivatives from amygdalin

The isomaltose trichloroacetimidate 7 was synthesized in five steps from d-amygdalin. The key step in this series of reactions was the acid catalyzed rearrangement of the inter-glycosydic bond to give the thermodynamically more stable α-anomer. The reaction was also applied to different di-, tri-, and tetrasaccharide derivatives of amygdalin giving the corresponding rearrangement products.     

反相高效液相色谱-蒸发光散射检测法测定紫苏子油中的α-亚麻酸

建立了反相高效液相色谱-蒸发光散射检测器(RP-HPLC-ELSD)测定紫苏子油中α-亚麻酸含量的方法。紫苏子油样用0.5 mol/L的KOH-CH3OH溶液于60 ℃水浴中皂化20 min、6 mol/L的盐酸酸化后用无水乙醚萃取,再用氮气流吹干乙醚，用甲醇溶解并定容,然后直接进行RP-HPLC-ELSD分析。结果表明,当α-亚麻酸质量为6.2～45.4 μg时,其峰面积A的对数(lg A)与α-亚麻酸质量m(μg)的对数(lg m)呈线性关系,线性方程为lg A=1.3675·lg m－1.628,相关系数为0.9973(n＝5)。以信噪比S/N=3计算,方法的检出限为0.11 μg。被分析的紫苏子油中α-亚麻酸的含量为6.79%(质量分数),相对标准偏差(RSD)为5.1%(n=5)；平均回收率为102%,RSD为6.3%(n=5)。该方法简单、快速、准确。     

α-硝基环烷酮的制备及其合成应用

介绍了α-硝基环烷酮的制备方法, 以及它们的特殊反应性和合成应用, 参考文献40多篇.     

LiBF4: a mild and novel reagent for the OH insertion reactions of α-diazoketones

Lithium tetrafluoroborate (10 mol%) is found to catalyze efficiently the OH insertion reactions of α-diazoketones with various alcohols including benzylic, allylic, propargylic and cyclopropyl carbinols to produce the corresponding α-alkoxy ketones in excellent yields with high selectivity. A solution of 10 mol% of LiBF₄ in acetonitrile provides a convenient reaction medium to carry out the OH insertion reactions under mild and neutral conditions.     

A novel deacylation during the amination of trifluoromethyl β-dicarbonyl compounds

Starting from trifluoromethyl β-dicarbonyl compounds, a rare loss of CF₃CO was observed in the amination reactions performed under heterogeneous conditions using NsONHCO₂Et as the aminating agent and CaO or NaH as the base, while corresponding nonfluorinated β-dicarbonyl compounds under analogous conditions give non deacylated aminated compounds. This reaction can facilitate a direct synthesis of N-substituted α-amino esters or α-amino ketones.     

A study of the thermal decarboxylation of three perfluoropolyether salts

The thermal decarboxylation of three dicarboxylic perfluoropolyether potassium salts of relatively short chain length has been investigated and the products and kinetics of the main reactions have been defined. From the rate constants and Arrhenius parameters data, the second decarboxylation appears to be quantitatively rather close to the first.     

Synthesis of difluorinated pseudopeptides using chiral α,α-difluoro-β-amino acids in the Ugi reaction

2,2-Difluoro-3-(2-hydroxy-1 R-phenylethylamino)-3 S-phenylpropionic acid 3, obtained by a Reformatsky-type reaction of ethyl bromodifluoroacetate with (4R)-2,4-diphenyloxazolidine, was used as a classical carboxylic acid in the Ugi reaction to prepare various difluorinated pseudopeptides 5a-n. Compounds 5 were then deprotected by hydrogenolysis to furnish difluorinated pseudopeptides 6.     

α-Al2O3阻氢微观机制研究

采用基于密度泛函理论广义梯度近似下的平面波赝势方法研究了刚玉(α-Al2O3)的阻氢微观机制, 对氢原子在α-Al2O3中的占据结构进行了计算, 发现氢原子占据空隙位置时能量最低, 寻找其过渡态得到活化能为1.59 eV, 利用动力学计算得到了氢原子在α-Al2O3中的扩散系数表达式为D(T)=(3.37×10-7)exp(-1.59/kT). 结果表明, 氢原子占据在α-Al2O3八面体空隙处的结构最稳定; 低温时扩散难以发生; 高温时扩散沿着空隙方向.