Sesquiterpene Lactones and Flavonoids from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Artemisia albida</Emphasis>

The five known lactones matricarin, austricin, canin, and achillin guaianolides and argolide germacranolide and the two flavonoids eupatilin and its 7-O-methyl ester were isolated for the first time from the aerial part of Artemisia albida Willd. The structure of eupatilin was confirmed by an x-ray structure analysis. __________ Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 568–570, November–December, 2005.     

Synthesis,complexation, and photochemistry of benzobisthiazole-based bis(crown ether)

Benzobisthiazole-based bis(crown ether) was synthesized and its complexation with alkali and alkaline earth cations was studied. Photochemical transformations of the free ligand and its complexes with alkaline earth cations involve E,Z-photoisomerization and [2+2] photocycloaddition. Dedicated to Academician N. S. Zefirov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2056–2065, September, 2005.     

Z/E-photoisomerizations of olefins with 4npi- or (4n + 2)pi-electron substituents: zigzag variations in olefin properties along the T(1) state energy surfaces

[Figure: see text]. A quantum chemical study has been performed to assess changes in aromaticity along the T1 state Z/E-isomerization pathways of annulenyl-substituted olefins. It is argued that the point on the T1 energy surface with highest substituent aromaticity corresponds to the minimum. According to Baird (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1972, 94, 4941), aromaticity and antiaromaticity are interchanged when going from S0 to T1. Thus, olefins with S0 aromatic substituents (set A olefins) will be partially antiaromatic in T1 and vice versa for olefins with S0 antiaromatic substituents (set B olefins). Twist of the C=C bond to a structure with a perpendicular orientation of the 2p(C) orbitals (3p*) in T1 should lead to regaining substituent aromaticity in set A and loss of aromaticity in set B olefins. This hypothesis is verified through quantum chemical calculations of T1 energies, geometries (bond lengths and harmonic oscillator measure of aromaticity), spin densities, and nucleus independent chemical shifts whose differences along the T1 PES display zigzag dependencies on the number of -electrons in the annulenyl substituent of the olefin. Aromaticity changes are reflected in the profiles of the T1 potential energy surfaces (T1 PESs) for Z/E-isomerizations because olefins in set A have minima at 3p* whereas those in set B have maxima at such structures. The proper combination (fusion) of the substituents of set A and B olefins could allow for design of novel optical switch compounds that isomerize adiabatically with high isomerization quantum yields.     

A hexacyclic ent-trachylobane diterpenoid possessing an oxetane ring from Mitrephora glabra

[chemical reaction: see text]. Three new ent-trachylobane diterpenoids (1-3) were isolated and structures elucidated from Mitrephora glabra Scheff. (Annonaceae). Mitrephorone A (1) possesses a hexacyclic ring system with adjacent ketone moieties and an oxetane ring, both of which are unprecedented among trachylobanes. All compounds were evaluated for cytotoxicity against a panel of cancer cells, where 1 displayed the most potent and broadest activity, and against a battery of antimicrobial assays, where all compounds were approximately equipotent.     

QSPR Modeling of the Reactivity Parameters of Monomers in Radical Copolymerizations

For a series of monomers, QSPR test analysis is performed by optimizing the correlation weights of the local invariants of molecular graphs representing monomer structures in order to construct models of the reactivity parameters of monomers Q and e. This approach may be used as a tool in reactivity predictions for monomers for which no experimental data on Q and e are available.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by A. A. Toropov, V. O. Kudyshkin, N. L. Voropaeva, I. N. Ruban, and S. Sh. Rashidova__________Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 994–998, November–December, 2004.     

Synthesis of partially hydrogenated pyrazolo[3,4-b]quinolinones by condensation of 3-amino-5-methylpyrazole with aromatic aldehydes and dimedone

Cyclocondensation of 3-amino-5-methylpyrazole with 2-arylmethylidene-5,5-dimethylcyclohexane-1,3-diones or 9-aryl-3,3,6,6-tetramethyl-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9-octahydro-1H-xanthene-1,8-diones, as well as with synthetic precursors of the latter (para-substituted benzaldehydes and dimedone), in dimethylformamide or methanol gives the corresponding 4-aryl-3,7,7-trimethyl-2,4,6,7,8,9-hexahydropyrazolo[3,4-b]quinolin-5-ones. The structure of 4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3,7,7-trimethyl-2,4,6,7,8,9-hexahydropyrazolo[3,4-b]quinolin-5-one was proved by the X-ray diffraction data.     

EPR study of spin adducts of silyl and phosphonyl radicals with higher internal perfluoroalkenes

The EPR method was used to study the structure of spin adducts of silyl and phosphonyl radicals with higher internal perfluoroalkenes. The capacity for spin adducts to split off hydrogen atoms is determined by the degree of steric screening of the free radical center. The preparative photochemical reaction of hydrosilanes and dialkyl phosphites with perfluoro-4-methylpent-2-ene leads to regiospecific hydrosilylation and hydrophosphorylation products with yields up to 80%.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1018–1023, May, 1991.     

Synthesis of modified hexaprenol WC5OH from glutaraldehyde derivatives

A new procedure was developed for building linear Z-isoprenoids from glutaraldehyde derivatives as nonisoprenoid precursors, and is illustrated by the synthesis of hexaprenol WC₅OH.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 89–97, January, 1990.     

Synthesis of condensed systems containing the tetrazole ring by base-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization of quaternary ammonium salts

Quaternary ammonium salts containing propargyl and 3-(2-methyltetrazol-5-yl)propargyl groups undergo base-catalyzed cyclization at room temperature with self heating to form condensed heterocyclic systems containing the tetrazole ring. Heating at 90–92°C for 2 h is necessary to cyclize the allyl analogs of the starting salts.Communication 234 of the series Research on Amines and Ammonium Compounds. For 233, see [1].Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Erevan 375094. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 390–394, March, 1999.