Extraction of copper(II) and nickel(II) by cyclic trioximes and cyclic furazan oximes

The extraction properties of 1,2,3-cyclopentanetrione trioxime (H₃CPT) and its furazan, and of 4-t-butyl-1,2,6-cyclohexanetrione trioxime (H₃BHT) and its furazan are described. H₃CPT was found to be too soluble in water and was therefore of no use in extraction but H₃BHT was satisfactory. The extracted copper and nickel chelates of H₃BHT precipitate by agglomeration caused by intermolecular hydrogen bonding and/or coordination of the third oxime group. This precipitation blocked back extraction. The furazan oximes derived from these trioximes did not form copper or nickel chelates under extraction conditions.     

Diastereoselective 2,3-diazidation of indoles via copper(II)-catalyzed dearomatization

The copper-catalyzed directed dearomatization of indoles with the assistance of directing groups has been developed for the synthesis of 2,3-diazido indolines with good yields and excellent diastereoselectivities in aqueous solution. The resultant 2,3-diazides can be smoothly converted to other functional groups, including vicinal diamines, triazoles and benzotriazoles, in a single step.     

Complex formation equilibria of L-Amino-Acid amides with copper(II) in aqueous solution

Protonation and Cu(II) complexation equilibria of L -phenyhilaninamide, N²-methyl-L-phenylalaninamide, N², N²-dimethyl-L-phenylalaninamide, L -valinamide, and L -prolinamide have been studied by potentiometry in aqueous solution. The formation constants of the species observed, CuL²⁺, CuL, CuLH, CuL₂H and CuL₂H_?2, are discussed in relation to the structures of the ligands. Possible structures of bisamidato complexes are proposed on the ground of VIS and CD spectra. Since Cu(II) complexes of the present ligands (pH range 6–8) perform chiral resolution of dansyl- and unmodified amino acids in HPLC (reversed phase), it is relevant for the investigation of the resolution mechanism to know which are the species potentially involved in the recognition process.     

Thorpe-Ingold effect in copper(II)-catalyzed formal hydroalkoxylation-hydroarylation reaction of alkynols with indoles

The use of Cu(OTf)₂ as a catalyst for tandem hydroalkoxylation-hydroarylation reaction of alkynes tethered with hydroxyl group is reported. The reaction proceeds at 60 °C or even at room temperature with 5 mol % catalyst loading and produces C-3-substituted indoles in good to high yields. The method was shown to be applicable to a broad range of indoles, containing electron-withdrawing and electron-donating substituents, and alkynol substrates bearing sterically demanding substituents in the tether. Interestingly, it was found that Thorpe-Ingold effect is operating for this cyclization reaction. Easy availability and low cost of Cu(OTf)₂ make this method attractive and amenable for large-scale synthesis compared to known literature methods.     

Furoin thiosemicarbazone as an analytical reagent for nickel(II), palladium(II) and copper(II)

Furoin thiosemicarbazone (FTS) reacts with Ni(II), Pd(II) and Cu(II) in aqueous medium, giving yellow solutions at pH 9, 6 and 3 respectively. The complexes have absorption maxima at 360 nm for Ni(II) and Pd(II) and 355 nm for Cu(II). At these wavelengths the reagent absorbance is negligible. The molar absorptivities are 1.54 x 10(4) [Ni(FTS)(2)], 1.98 x 10(4) [Pd(FTS)(2)] and 1.45 x 10(4) 1.mole(-1).cm(-1) (CuFTS). Beer's law is valid up to 4, 5 and 3 ppm for Ni, Pd and Cu respectively. The apparent instability constant of the Ni-FTS system is found to be 6.5 x 10(-11), of the Cu-FTS system 7.1 x 10(-7) and of the Pd-FTS system 3 x 10(-12) at the recommended pH values. The effect of various ions is reported.     

N-Acetylacetone-anthranilic acid as a gravimetric reagent for copper(II)

N-Acetylacetone-anthranilic acid has been employed as a reagent for the gravimetric determination of copper(II). The solid copper(II) chelate formed possesses 1:1 metal-ligand stoichiometry and is found to exist as an unsolvated dimer. The complex has a magnetic moment of 1.88 B.M. at 298 K. A non-planar dimeric structure is suggested to explain the observed facts.     

Spectrophotometric total protein assay with copper(II)-neocuproine reagent in alkaline medium

Total protein assay was made using copper(II)–neocuproine (Nc) reagent in alkaline medium (with the help of a hydroxide-carbonate-tartarate solution) after 30 min incubation at 40 °C. The absorbance of the reduction product, Cu(I)–Nc complex, was recorded at 450 nm against a reagent blank. The absorptivity of the developed method for bovine serum albumin (BSA) was 0.023 l mg⁻¹ cm⁻¹, greater than that of Lowry assay (0.0098), and much greater than that of Cu(II)–bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay (0.00077). The linear range of the developed method (8–100 mg l⁻¹ BSA) was as wide as that of Lowry, and much wider than that of BCA (200–1000 mg l⁻¹ BSA) assay. The sensitivity of the method was greater than those of Cu-based assays (biuret, Lowry, and BCA) with a LOD of 1 mg l⁻¹ BSA. The within-run and between-run precisions as RSD were 0.73 and 1.01%, respectively. The selectivity of the proposed method for protein was much higher than those of dye-binding and Lowry assays: Most common interferents to other protein assays such as tris, ethanolamine, deoxycholate, CsCl, citrate, and triton X-100 were tolerated at 100-fold concentrations in the analysis of 10 mg l⁻¹ BSA, while the tolerance limits for other interferents, e.g., (NH₄)₂SO₄ and acetylsalicylic acid (50-fold), SDS (25-fold), and glycerol (20-fold) were at acceptable levels. The redox reaction of Cu(II)–Nc as an outer-sphere electron transfer agent with the peptide bond and with four amino acid residues (cystine, cysteine, tryptophan, and tyrosine) was kinetically more favourable than that of Cu(II) alone in the biuret assay. Since the reduction product of Cu(II) with protein, i.e., Cu(I), was coordinatively saturated with Nc in the stable Cu(Nc)₂⁺ chelate, re-oxidation of the formed Cu(I) with Fenton-like reactions was not possible, thereby preventing a loss of chromophore. After conventional protein extraction, precipitation, and redissolution procedures, the protein contents of the minced meat (veal and turkey), sardine, various milk products, and egg white were analyzed with the proposed and Lowry methods, and the results correlated appreciably (r = 0.98). The method was validated by Kjeldahl analyses of the tested samples; the data sets of complex samples assayed by Cu(II)–Nc and Lowry correlated to the findings of Kjeldahl yielded correlation coefficients r = 0.96 and 0.97, respectively, with slopes being close to 1. Interferences of glucose and thiol compounds at relatively low concentrations could be compensated for by selecting a lower alkaline pH (i.e., pH 10) at a cost of slightly reduced sensitivity and adding an identical amount of interferent to the reagent blank, respectively, since the absorbances due to BSA and interferent were additive. Thus a novel spectrophotometric method for total protein assay using a stable reagent and chromophore, which was simple, rapid, sensitive, flexible, and relatively selective, was developed, and applied to a variety of food products.     

Reactions of indoles with mercury (II) salts

A number of mercurated indoles were prepared. Their spectroscopic data (UV,ir,^1H-NMR and13C-nmr) are reported. Our results contradict certain data appearing in previous reports on similar compounds. When heated in acetic acid mercurated compounds decomposed, although the products formed were not identical with those obtained earlier from the same substrates by the action of thallium(III) acetate in acetic acid. Reaction of l-methylindole-3-mercuriacetate with styrene in the presence of lithium tetrachloropalladate furnished a product which was tentatively assigned the structure 9-methyl-1,3-diphenyl-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydrocarbazole.     

Helical-chain copper(II) complexes and a cyclic tetranuclear copper(II) complex with single syn-anti carboxylate bridges and ferromagnetic exchange interactions

Tridentate Schiff-base carboxylate-containing ligands, derived from the condensation of 2-imidazolecarboxaldehyde with the amino acids beta-alanine (H2L1) and 2-aminobenzoic acid (H2L5) and the condensation of 2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde with beta-alanine (HL2), D,L-3-aminobutyric acid (HL3), and 4-aminobutyric acid (HL4), react with copper(II) perchlorate to give rise to the helical-chain complexes [[Cu(mu-HL1)(H2O)](ClO4)]n (1), [[Cu(mu-L2)(H2O)](ClO4).2H2O]n (2), and [[Cu(mu-L3)(H2O)](ClO4).2H2O]n (3), the tetranuclear complex [[Cu(mu-L4)(H2O)](ClO4)]4 (4), and the mononuclear complex [Cu(HL5)(H2O)](ClO4).1/2H2O (5). The reaction of copper(II) chloride with H2L1 leads not to a syn-anti carboxylate-bridged compound but to the chloride-bridged dinuclear complex [Cu(HL1)(mu-Cl)]2 (6). The structures of these complexes have been solved by X-ray crystallography. In complexes 1-4, roughly square-pyramidal copper(II) ions are sequentially bridged by syn-anti carboxylate groups. Copper(II) ions exhibit CuN2O3 coordination environments with the three donor atoms of the ligand and one oxygen atom belonging to the carboxylate group of an adjacent molecule occupying the basal positions and an oxygen atom (from a water molecule in the case of compounds 1-3 and from a perchlorate anion in 4) coordinated in the apical position. Therefore, carboxylate groups are mutually cis oriented and each syn-anti carboxylate group bridges two copper(II) ions in basal-basal positions with Cu...Cu distances ranging from 4.541 A for 4 to 5.186 A for 2. In complex 5, the water molecule occupies an equatorial position in the distorted octahedral environment of the copper(II) ion and the Cu-O carboxylate distances in axial positions are very large (>2.78 A). Therefore, this complex can be considered as mononuclear. Complex 6 exhibits a dinuclear parallel planar structure with Ci symmetry. Copper(II) ions display a square-pyramidal coordination geometry (tau = 0.06) for the N2OCl2 donor set, where the basal coordination sites are occupied by one of the bridging chlorine atoms and the three donor atoms of the tridentate ligand and the apical site is occupied by the remaining bridging chlorine atom. Magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate that complexes 1-4 exhibit weak ferromagnetic interactions whereas a weak antiferromagnetic coupling has been established for 6. The magnetic behavior can be satisfactorily explained on the basis of the structural data for these and related complexes.     

Spectrophotometric determination of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) using copper(II)-neocuproine reagent

A coated graphite-epoxy ion-selective electrode for bismuth(III), based on the ion-pair between the [Bi(EDTA)](-) anion and tricaprylylmethylammonium cation (Aliquat 336S) incorporated onto a poly(vinylchloride) (PVC) matrix is constructed. A thin membrane film of this ion-pair, dibutylphthalate (DBPh) or ortho-nitrophenyloctylether (o-NPOE) in PVC was deposited directly onto a Perspex(R) tube which contained a graphite-epoxy conductor substrate attached to the end of a glass tube. The coating solution was prepared by dissolving 30% (w/w) of PVC in 10 ml of tetrahydrofuran following addition of 65% (w/w) DBPh or o-NPOE and 5% (w/w) of the ionic pair. The effect of pH, EDTA concentration and some cation and anion on the electrode response is investigated. The bismuth(III) ion-selective electrode shows a linear response in the bismuth(III) concentration range from 1.0 x 10(-8) to 1.0 x 10(-1) mol 1(-1) and 1.0 x 10(-7) to 1.0 x 10(-1) mol 1(-1) and a slope of 56.8 and 59.2 mV dec.(-1) for the polymeric membranes containing DBPh and o-NPOE, respectively. The lifetime of this electrode was superior to 1 year (over 1600 determinations for each polymeric membrane), with practical detection limits of 6.3 x 10(-9) and 4.4 x 10(-8) mol 1(-1) with these plasticizers. Application of this electrode with bismuth(III) determination in a stomach anti-acid sample is described.     

Spectrophotometric determination of the soil fumigant: dazomet with copper(II)-neocuproine reagent

A spectrophotometric method has been developed for the assay of dazomet, a soil fumigant effective for the control of nematodes, germinating weeds and soil fungi, using the copper(II)-neocuproine (2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) oxidizing reagent. A highly colored copper(I)-neocuproine chelate formed immediately in ammonium acetate-buffered solution a result of the redox reaction with dazomet, and its concentration measured from the absorbance at 453 nm using a molar absorptivity of (3.35±0.15)×10⁴ l mol⁻¹ cm⁻¹ for dazomet, the LOD for soil being 1-2 ppm. Dazomet in commercial formulations (such as Basamit, BASF) and soil extract could be measured by the developed method which was rapid (color development took 5 min), and cost-effective. The developed method was as precise as the CIPAC HPLC method (at 95% confidence level) using a nucleosil 100-5 C₁₈ column with UV detection. The degradation of dazomet in different types of forestry soil, i.e. sandy, loamy and clay soils to which moisture and Basamit in recommended doses were applied, was followed kinetically using the developed procedure. The proposed method is much simpler than the US-EPA and CIPAC methods of dazomet assay, and is applicable to on-site colorimetry for field use (via retention of the colored copper(I)-neocuproine cation on an acidic cation exchanger) where rapid detection of dazomet residues and breakdown products is required. The method was not interfered with common soil ions and 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), a fumigant used in combination with dazomet.     

Copper-mediated N-cyclopropylation of azoles, amides, and sulfonamides by cyclopropylboronic acid

Reaction of azoles, amides, and sulfonamides in dichloroethane with readily available cyclopropylboronic acid in the presence of copper acetate and sodium carbonate afforded the N-cyclopropyl derivatives in good to excellent yields.     

Oximidobenzotetronic acid — a sensitive spot test reagent for iron(II), cobalt(II) and copper(II)

Summary Oximidobenzotetronic acid is suggested as a sensitive spot test reagent for iron(II), cobalt(II) and copper(II) in the presence of commonly occuring cations.

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Zusammenfassung Oximidobenzotetronsäure (3-Ntroso-4-hydroxycumarin) wird als empfindliches Tüpfelreagens zum Nachweis von Fe(II), Co(II) und Cu(II) in Gegenwart anderer Kationen vorgeschlagen.

     

Heterogeneously catalyzed selective aerobic oxidative cross-coupling of terminal alkynes and amides with simple copper(II) hydroxide

Simple copper(II) hydroxide Cu(OH)(2) could act as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for selective oxidative cross-coupling of a broad range of terminal alkynes and amides using air as a sole oxidant, giving the corresponding ynamides in moderate to high yields (56-93% yields).     

Tetrahydroxyazon SCl as a new analytical reagent for determining copper(II)

2,2′,3,4-Tetrahydroxy-3′-sulfo-5-chloroazobenzene was synthesized from pyrogallol and 2-aminophenol-5-chlorobenzenesulfonic acid. The complexation of copper(II) with this reagent was studied. A homoligand compound of the stoichiometry 1: 1 was obtained at pH 2. The optimum conditions for complexation were found and the equilibrium constant of the reaction was calculated. The selectivity of the reaction was studied and the stability constant of the complex was evaluated. Procedures were developed for the photometric determination of copper in alloys and soils.     

Rapid determination of copper(I,II) ions using reagent indicator paper

A rapid, sensitive, and highly selective test based on the reaction of copper(I) with thio-Michler’s ketone was developed for the detection and semiquantitative determination of 0.001–2 mg/L copper in natural and potable waters using preconcentration in a portable indicator device. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy was used to select reagent concentrations for immobilization on paper and study the conditions and performance characteristics of the procedure.     

Spectrophotometric determination of ascorbic acid using copper(II)-neocuproine reagent in beverages and pharmaceuticals

The proposed method for ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) (AA) determination is based on the oxidation of AA to dehydroascorbic acid with a Cu(II)-2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline (neocuproine (Nc)) reagent in ammonium acetate-containing medium at pH 7, where the absorbance of the formed bis(Nc)-copper(I) chelate is measured at 450 nm. This chelate was formed immediately and the apparent molar absorptivity for AA was found to be 1.60 × 10⁴ dm³ mol⁻¹ cm⁻¹. Beer's law was obeyed between 8.0 × 10⁻⁶ and 8.0 × 10⁻⁵ M concentration range. The relative standard deviation for 90 μg AA was 3%. The Cu(II)-Nc reagent is a milder and therefore more selective oxidant than the conventional Fe(III)-1,10-phenanthroline (phen) reagent used for the same assay. This feature makes the proposed method superior for real samples such as fruit juices containing weak reductants such as citrate, oxalate and tartarate that otherwise produce positive errors in the Fe(III)-phen method when equilibrium is achieved. The developed method was applied to a number of commercial fruit juices, pharmaceutical preparations containing Vitamin C, and red wine. The meta-bisulfite content of wine was removed with an anion exchanger at pH 3 prior to analysis, and a difference extractive–spectrophotometric method of AA assay in wine was developed so as to suppress the interferences caused by wine anthocyanins and polyphenols. The findings of the developed method for fruit juices and pharmaceuticals were also statistically compared with those of HPLC so as to establish it as a reliable novel method.     

Solvent extraction of technetium(VII) by cyclic amides

The extraction behavior of heptavalent technetium with cyclic amides inn-dodecane from nitric acid solution was studied. The amides investigated are N-(2-ethyl)hexylbutyrolactam(EHBLA). N-(2-ethyl)hexylvalerolactam(EHVLA), N-(2-ethyl)hexyl-caprolactam (EHCLA), N-octylcaprolactam(OCLA), a mixture of 3-octyl-N-(2-ethyl)hexylvalerolactam and 4-octyl-N-(2-ethyl)hexylvalerolactam (3,4,OEHVLA), 2-octyl-N-(2-ethyl)hexylcaprolactam(2OEHCLA), a mixture of 3-octyl-N-(2-ethyl)hexylcaprolactam and 5-octyl-N-(2-ethyl)hexylcaprolactam(3,5,OEHCLA) and that of 3-octyl-N-octylcaprolactam and 5-octyl-N-octylcaprolactam(3,5,OOCLA). From the results of the distribution ratio of Tc(VII) as a function of acid concentration, cyclic amides concentration and HTcO₄ concentration, the effects of both the ring size of cyclic amide and structure of the substituents attached to different positions of the cyclic ring on the extraction behavior of Tc(VII) were discussed. A clear steric hindrance was observed. For applications, 3,4,OEHVLA is proposed as the best extractant for Tc from acidic solution.     

Reactions of 2-pyridylphenylacetonitrile with copper(II) chloride,copper(II) bromide,cobalt(II) chloride and cobalt(II) bromide

Reaction of 2-pyridylphenylacetonitrile with copper(II) chloride and copper(II) bromide in dry ethanol gives the hitherto unreported compound 1,2-di(cyano,phenyl,2′-pyridyl)ethane. The cobalt halides react with 2-pyridylphenylacetonitrile to form 1:1 complexes containing O-ethyl-2-phenyl-2-(2′-pyridyl)acetimidate as ligand. Removal of the ligand by the action of dry liquid ammonia on the complexes provides a better route to the pure imidate than the well known Pinner method.