1,4 Addition to a perfluorinated cross-conjugated triene

Conclusions Perfluoro-(2-isobutenyl-1,1,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-butadiene) yields 1,4 addition products both in nucleophilic addition and in radical chlorination.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1061–1064, May, 1979.     

New method of preparing β-lactams

Summary A method has been devised for the synthesis of -lacrams from amides of -ha!ocarboxylic acids. Some new azetidinones with residues containing carboxyl groups on the nitrogen have been piepated. The method permits the conversion of $-amino acids trio difficulty accessible mixed (secondary) amino acids.This paper is publised under the regulations governing Brief Communications.     

α-hydroperfluoroisopropylisocyanate

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Fullerene C60 as a η5- and η6-ligand in sandwich-type π-complexes with transition metals

The molecular and electronic structures of some hypothetical sandwich-type -complexes of transition metals with fullerene C₆₀ were modeled. The M-C₆₀ bonds in ⁵-C₆₀MCp⁺ complexes (M = Fe, Ru, Os) are less strong than the M-Cp bonds in ferrocene, ruthenocene, and osmocene, respectively. The ⁶-C₆₀MC₆H₆ complexes (M = Cr, Mo, W) should be less stable than their classical analogs (C₆H₆)M(C₆H₆). The coordination of a metal atom with the fullerene at its pentagonal face is more energetically favorable than at a hexagonal face.Translated fromIzyestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 598–601, April, 1994.We are grateful to V. I. Sokolov for discussion of the results obtained. This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 93-03-4101 and 93-03-18725).     

Crown compounds for anions. The nature of chemical bonds in the complexes of halide anions with cyclic trimeric perfluoro-o-phenylenemercury and some of its analogs

Geometries and electronic structures of the complexes of halide anions with cyclic trimerico-phenylenemercury, (o-C₆H₄Hg)₃, perfluoro-o-phenylenemercury, (o-C₆F₄Hg)₃, vinylenemercury, (C₂H₂Hg)₃, and perfluorovinylenemercury, (C₂F₂Hg)₃, were modelled by the MNDO method. Calculations were performed for [L-X]^– semisandwich complexes, [X-L-X]^2– bipyramidal complexes, and [L-X-L]^– sandwich complexes (where X=Hal,L is a mercury-containing macrocycle). Based on the results of calculations, we concluded that it was advantageous to describe the chemical bonding between halide anions and mercury-containing macrocycles in terms of generalized chemical bonds, which were successfully used for -complexes of transition metals. In the [L-X]^– semisandwich complexes, the halide anion and the metallacycle are involved in the formation of three generalized chemical bonds: one headlight-shaped -bond and two two-lobe -bonds. In the [X-L-X]^2– bipyramidal complexes, each halide anion forms three generalized chemical bonds with the macrocycle. It is possible because the macrocycleL has unoccupied molecular orbitals suitable for the formation of such bonds; these MOs consist mainly of the orbitals of mercury atoms directed toward both the upper and lower halogen atoms. In the [L-X-L]^– sandwich complexes, the halide anion cannot be bonded to each ringvia three bonds, and, hence, an unsymmetrical structure is formed, in which the rings are located at different distances from the central atom: the [L-X]^– semisandwich complex solvated by macrocycleL.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1035–1042, June, 1995.The authors are grateful to V. I. Faustov for valuable remarks.This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 93-03-18342).     

Reaction of fluoroketones with vinyl ethers

Conclusions The reaction of perfluoroketones with alkylvinyl ethers leads to 2-alkoxy-4,4-bis(perfluoroalkyl) oxethanes, subsequent isomerization of which yielded-alkoxyvinyl-bis(perfluoroalkyl)carbinols.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 918–921, April, 1967.