Selenium containing macrocycles:transformation between Se-N/Se-S/Se-Se bonds

Macrocycles possess potential applications in supramolecular chemistry and biosystems.Thus development of new kinds of macrocycles is of significance.Herein,novel macrocycles containing Se-Se/Se-S bonds were synthesized via transformation between selenium related dynamic covalent bonds.A monomer containing two ebselen moieties was synthesized(M1).The Se-N bonds in M1 were reduced by dithiothreitol,forming Se-S linked dimer(D1).To realize the transformation from Se-S bonds to Se-Se bonds,guest molecules were added as template,triggering the formation of Se-Se linked dimer(D2).The formation of these two new kinds of macrocycles was determined by ~1H NMR and ~(77)Se NMR,and the necessity of guest molecules was also confirmed.The introduction of ebselen moieties and Se-S bonds or Se-Se bonds into macrocycles may endow it with new responsiveness and bioactivities,as well as new types of host-guest chemistry.     

Retention of long-chain acetylenic hydrocarbons on non-polar stationary phases

The retention indices of methyl and trimethylsilyl esters of octadeca-, eicosa- and tricosa-ynoic fatty acids containing acetylenic bonds were measured on non-polar stationary phase (dimethylsilicone with 5% phenyl groups). An unusually large increase in retention is observed for compounds containing conjugated and methylene interrupted acetylenic bonds. The additional increase in retention index as a result of the presence of one conjugated acetylenic bond is roughly equivalent to the retention increase caused by lengthening of the hydrocarbon chain for one carbon atom. The increase in retention for methylene interrupted bonds constitutes approximately 50% increase for conjugated triple bonds. A further increase in interruption substantially decreases the effect. Based on available literature data and the results of this work, the contributions of conjugated acetylenic and olefinic bonds, and methylene interrupted acetylenic bonds to retention were estimated.     

Different mutual positions of double bonds in open carbon chains and corresponding information from magnetically induced current densities

Magnetically induced current densities have been extensively utilized to investigate aromaticity. However, an applied external magnetic field induces a current in all chemical bonds. The present work investigates the values and patterns of magnetically induced current densities in open hydrocarbon chains containing two or more CC double bonds, considering the three possibilities for the mutual positions of the double bonds (conjugated, isolated, and consecutive) and comparing the corresponding current patterns. The patterns for chains containing three conjugated double bonds are also compared with the patterns in the aromatic benzene ring. The study highlights different current patterns for the three categories of double-bonds arrangements. The differences can be interpreted in terms of presence or absence of electron delocalization (present only in the case of conjugated double bonds) and, for consecutive double bonds, also in terms of the mutual perpendicularity of the π orbitals of adjacent double bonds.     

Electronic terms of complex molecules in the excited state

The electronic terms of complex molecules in the excited state have been examined. It has been shown that molecules containing several identical bonds as a rule do not exhibit repulsive excited states with respect to any of these bonds.     

Metal-Boron Compounds – Problems and Perspectives

“True” metal-boron compounds have been known for about ten years. The bonding between the metal and boron atoms can vary widely in nature: Not only simple covalent bonds are encountered but also coordinate bonds and boron-metal multicenter bonds. Furthermore, π complexes of transition metals with boron-nitrogen systems and metal complexes containing boron(I) compounds as ligands have recently also been prepared.     

Metal–metal bonds

In this survey paper the main properties of metal–metal bonds are summarized. The results of several calculations on compounds containing such bonds are analyzed.     

Chiral modification of polyformyl compounds of dendrite type with optically active primary and secondary 1,2-aminoalcohols

Procedures were developed for preparation of optically active dendrones and dendrimers with terminal 1,2-hydroxylimino, 1,2-hydroxylamino and oxazolidinyl groups containing ether bonds in the branches and ester bonds in the backbone of the macromolecule. The compounds described may serve as chiral ligands for asymmetric metallocomplex catclysis.     

Thermal degradation of poly(vinyl chloride). II. Degradation mechanism based on decomposition energetics

On the basis of the measured activation energies for radical and HCl generation in four poly(vinyl chlorides) of controlled structures, an overall mechanism of degradation is proposed. The mechanism is a chain reaction involving a β-chloro elimination from a radical-containing polymer molecule. Molecules containing tertiary C? Cl bonds are shown to undergo a fast initiation. Those containing tertiary C? H bonds are also demonstrated to be highly unstable, but the instability is not associated with the initiation step.     

Structure and intramolecular hydrogen bonds in Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonylamino)methane and N-[(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)aminomethyl]acetamide

Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonylamino)methane in an inert medium exists as an equilibrium mixture of monomeric forms with various types of intramolecular hydrogen bonds, whose population depends on the polarity of the medium. The energetically most favorable form is a symmetrical form containing two N-H...O=S bonds. Less stable are the isomer with two N-H...F-C bonds and the unsymmetrical isomer with two different hydrogen bonds. N-[(Trifluoromethylsulfonyl)aminomethyl]acetamide contains one intramolecular intramolecular N-H...O=C hydrogen bond and preserves ability for self-association.     

Untersuchungen über das Verhalten organischer Mischphasen 9. Mitteilung Vergleich der binären Systeme Tetrahydrofuran mit Wasser,Methanol und Cyclohexan,Diäthyläther mit Wasser,Methanol und Cyclohexan und Tetrahydrofuran-Diäthyläther

Activities and mixing functions of the following binary systems at 25° C are discussed: 1. mixtures of tetrahydrofuran with water, methanol, and cyclohexane; 2. mixtures of diethyl ether with water, methanol, and cyclohexane, and 3. mixtures of tetrahydrofuran with diethyl ether. Comparison with similar systems shows that in systems containing methanol, the strongest interactions are formation and breaking of hydrogen bonds between alcohol molecules; interactions between methanol and ether molecules play a minor rǒle. Systems containing water exhibit two main kinds of interaction: formation and breaking of hydrogen bonds between water molecules, and formation of hydrogen bonds between water and ether molecules. Deviations from ideality are larger for diethyl ether than for tetrahydrofuran in water and methanol, and smaller in cyclohexane.     

Cationic five-coordinate Pt(II) complexes as donors in the formation of Pt-->Ag dative bonds

A unique trinuclear cluster containing two short Pt-->Ag dative bonds was prepared and characterized crystallographically. Two monocationic orthometalated Pt(II) complexes containing 2-phenylpyridine and the tridentate ligand 9S3 (1,4,7-trithiacyclononane) exhibit axial sulfur interactions with Pt as well as short dative bonds. The Pt-->Ag dative bonding results in a dramatic shortening of the axial Pt-S distance in each Pt complex cation, relative to the mononuclear Pt complex. Evidence for Pt-Ag interactions in solution is also presented.     

Tunable delocalization of unpaired electrons of nitroxide radicals for sickle-cell disease drug improvements

Hydroxyurea is a drug recently approved to treat sickle cell diseases. Hydroxyurea benefits the patients by increasing the level of fetal hemoglobin via a nitroxide radical pathway. Here, we report an unpaired-electron-delocalization approach to tune the stability of nitroxide radicals. In this approach, the substitution by an unsaturated alkyl group containing conjugated C=C double bonds for the hydrogen on the nitrogen atom attached to the hydroxyl of hydroxyurea can significantly increase its ability to generate nitroxide radical. Furthermore, the increase can be remarkably enhanced by increasing the number of conjugated C=C double bonds. For a hydroxyurea derivative that contains two conjugated C=C double bonds, the reaction rate to generate its radical is 118 times faster than that of hydroxyurea, and for a hydroxyurea derivative containing 20 conjugated C=C double bonds, the reaction rate to form its radical is 238 times faster than that of hydroxyurea. For this reason, hydroxyurea derivatives with conjugated C=C double bonds may constitute new potential drugs for the treatment of sickle-cell diseases.     

Methacrylate composites containing maleic derivatives of cyclotriphosphazene

Oligophosphazenes containing carboxyl groups and copolymerizable double bonds are synthesized through the interaction between hexa-p-hydroxymethylphenoxycyclotriphosphazene and maleic anhydride. The synthesized compounds with a controlled ratio of carboxyl groups and double bonds are used as modifiers of methacrylate dental composites that exhibit high adhesion to hard dental tissues and metals.     

Regiodirected phosphorylation of 2,2′,7,7′-tetrahydroxydinaphthylmethane

The phosphorylation of 2,2′,7,7′-tetrahydroxydinaphthylmethane was studied and the influence of molecule pre-organization on the regioselectivity of functionalization was investigated. The reactions of 2,2′,7,7′-tetrahydroxydinaphthylmethane with phosphorous amides containing 1-3 amide bonds gave oligophosphorylated derivatives differing in the number and the nature of phosphorus fragments and in the size of phosphorus rings: tetraphosphorus macrocycles containing one 24-membered and two eight-membered phosphorus rings, triphosphorus compounds containing a phosphocine ring and two acyclic phosphorus fragments, and tetraphosphorylated derivatives with four phosphorus groups in the molecule. The possibility of controlling the regioselectivity of phosphorylation by using reagents differing in the number and activity of P-N bonds was demonstrated.     

Description of collective effects in computer models of water

The dynamics of a system containing 3456 water molecules in a cubic cell with periodic boundary conditions at 297 K was simulated. The time dependence of distances between oxygen atoms was examined for many pairs of molecules. These distances often oscillate around a certain average value over long periods of time (10 ps and longer). These average values can be about 2.8 Å (hydrogen bond) or much larger, up to 12–13 Å and more. This suggests that big groups of molecules are involved in a concerted motion. Lists of hydrogen bonds in 50 configurations divided by an interval of about 1 ps are compared. The average lifetime of a hydrogen bond is about 7 ps. The network of hydrogen bonds is colored according to their lifetimes for one of the configurations. The bonds that live longer than 7 ps form an infinite cluster. The bonds that live longer than 8 ps join to form a great number of finite clusters including several hundreds of nodes (molecules). These clusters contain few closed cycles. Even the bonds that live longer than 20 ps are united into clusters each containing two or three nodes (molecules). The self-diffusion coefficient for molecules involved in long-lived bonds is likely to be slightly smaller than that for molecules which do not participate in these bonds.     

Determination of some thiophosphorus insecticides based on coulometric titration with the anodically generated chlorine: a further insight in the reaction mechanism in aqueous medium

A new method of analytical determination of some thiolo (PS) and thiono (PS) group containing phosphorus insecticides using a coulometric titration with the anodically generated chlorine and biamperometric end-point detection was described. The method worked well for compounds containing one (methamidophos) or two PS bonds (iso-malathion) or one PS bond (fenitrothion) but failed for compounds containing both PS and PS bonds (malathion, dimethoate) or additional sterically hindered CSC bond (fenthion). Based on the found number z of electrons transferred per mol of oxidized compounds, mechanistic pathways for chlorination of PS and PS containing thiophosphorus insecticides with molecular chlorine in aqueous, acidic medium were proposed.     

Enantioselective Borylation of Aromatic C−H Bonds with Chiral Dinitrogen Ligands

The borylation of C−H bonds catalyzed by transition metals has been investigated extensively in the past two decades, but no iridium‐catalyzed enantioselective borylation of C−H bonds has been reported. We report a set of iridium‐catalyzed enantioselective borylations of aromatic C−H bonds. This reaction relies on a set of newly developed chiral quinolyl oxazoline ligands. This process proceeds under mild conditions with good to excellent enantioselectivity, and the borylated products can be converted to enantioenriched derivatives containing new C−O, C−C, C−Cl, or C−Br bonds.     

Energy cost of C-C bond compression

The molecular structures and energies of hydrocarbons containing very short nominally single C-C bonds were calculated by high-level ab initio calculations. The ‘squeeze energies’ (SqEs) pertaining to the shortening of central C-C bonds are found to correlate very well with central short C-C bond lengths.     

Formation and Reactivity of Electron‐Precise B−B Single and Multiple Bonds

Recent years have seen rapid advances in the chemistry of small molecules containing electron‐precise boron–boron bonds. This Review provides an overview of the latest methods for the controlled synthesis of B−B single and multiple bonds as well as the ever‐expanding range of reactivity displayed by B−B multiple bonds.     

REACTIONS BETWEEN SULFUR DIOXIDE AND PHOSPHINES

Abstract

Reaction between sulfur dioxide and trimethyl phosphine yields both phosphine oxide and sulfide. Reactions between sulfur dioxide and phosphines containing P-H bonds generally give rise to the most fully oxidized acid containing phosphorus that can be formed without cleaving P-C bonds. Thus, diphenylphosphine gives diphenylphosphinic acid (and some tetraphenyldiphosphine disulfide) and phenylphosphine gives phenylphosphonic acid.