<Superscript>1</Superscript>H and <Superscript>13</Superscript>C NMR spectra of some drimanic sesquiterpenoids

One- and two-dimensional homo- and heteronuclear correlation proton, carbon, proton—proton, and proton—carbon NMR spectra of fifteen drimanic sesquiterpenoids: 11,12-dibromodrima-5,8-dien-7-one, drim-8-en-7-one, 11-hydroxydrim-8-en-7-one, 11,12-dihydroxydrim-8-en-7-one, 11-hydroxy-11,12-epoxydrim-8-en-7-one, 11-hydroxy-11,12-epoxydrim-8-en-7-one, 8,9-epoxydriman-7-one, 8,9-epoxydriman-7-ol, 11,12-diacetoxydrim-8-en-7-ol, drimane-7,8,11-triol, 7,8-isopropylidenedioxydriman-11-al, 9, 11-dihydroxydrim-7-en-6-one, drimane-7,8,9-triol, drimane-7,8,11-triol, and drim-8-ene-7,11,12-triol were studied. The proton and carbon chemical shifts were assigned.__________Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2589–2594, December, 2004.     

Approaches to the synthesis of pregn-5-en-3β,21-diol-20-one-[16,17α-d]-2'-methyloxazoline

Conclusions Two independent methods were found for the preparation of pregn-5-en-3,21-diol-[16,-17-d]-2'-methyloxazoline: 1) by cis-opening of the aziridine ring of the 3;16,17;21-triacetate of 16,17-epiminopregn-5-en-3,21-diol-20-one and 2) by the 21-hydroxylation of pregn-5-en-3-o1-20-one-[16,17-d]-2'-methyloxazoline using iodosobenzoyl diacetate.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2138–2141, September, 1984.     

Mass spectral and thermogravimetric studies of some iron(III) binuclear complexes with bridging thiuram disulfide ligands

Mass spectral and thermal studies by TG and DTG of some iron(III) binuclear complexes of the general type Fe₂(R₂dtc)₂(tds)X₂X/ have been carried out to determine their modes of decomposition. Fragmentation patterns are given and possible mechanisms are discussed.

---

Zusammenfassung Massenspektrometrische und thermische Untersuchungen (TG und DTG) einiger zweikerniger Eisen(III)-Komplexe des allgemeinen Typs (R₂dtc)₂(tds)X₂X₂ wurden ausgeführt, um deren Zersetzungsmechanismus zu ermitteln. Fragmentspektren werden angegeben und mögliche Mechanismen diskutiert.

---

- ( ) Fe₂(R₂dtc)₂(tds)X₂X₂ . .

     

Transformations of solasodine

Solasodine (I) has been subjected to a number of transformations. The following compounds have been obtained from it by described procedures: 3-acetoxypregna-5,16-dien-20-one (II), 3-acetoxypregn-5-en-20-ol (III), and 3-acetoxypregn-5-en-20-ol (IV). The oxidation of (III) and (IV), the formation of an oxime, and the reduction of the oxime with sodium in ethanol, followed by Hess methylation, has led to 20-dimethylaminopregn-5-en-3-ol (IX) and to 20-dimethylaminopregn-5-en-3-ol (X). From compounds (IX) and (X), by analogy with (III) and (IV) by their oxidation and the preparation of oximes, which were then reduced and methylated, the following were obtained: 3,20-bisdimethylaminopregnane (XVII) and 3,20-bisdimethylaminopregnane (XVIII), and also quaternary salts of the latter.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 370–374, May–June, 1980.     

Polyhydroxysteroids from the Far-Eastern starfishCtenodiscus crispatus

Four new polyhydroxysteroids, 5-cholesta-3,5,6,15,16,25,26-heptaol, 24-ethyl-5-cholesta-3,5,6,15,28,29-heptaol-29-sulfate, (22E)-24-methyl-5-cholest-22-ene-3,5,6,15,25,26-hexaol-26-sulfate, 24-propyl-5-cholesta-3,5,6,8,15,28,29-heptaol, and the known 5-cholesta-3,5,6,15,16,26-hexaol, have been isolated from the starfishCtenodiscus crispatus.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 1821–1825, October, 1994.     

Mass spectrometric study of monoalkyl-substituted thiacyclanes

Monosubstituted - and -alkylthiophans and -, -, and -alkylthiacyclohexanes were subjected to a comparative mass spectrometric study. The stability of the M⁺ ion increases on passing from - to -alkylthiophans and from - to - and -alkylthiacyclohexanes. In the case of -alkylthiophans and - and -alkylthia-cyclohexanes the principal process is associated with ejection of the substituent as a whole, whereas a portion of the alkyl substituent, with retention of one CH₂ group in the composition of the charged fragment, is eliminated from the molecular ions of -alkylthiophans and -alkylthiacyclohexanes.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 176–181, February, 1978.     

Excess enthalpies of aqueous solutions of small peptides at 25°C

Heats of dilution of aqueous solutions of the following di-and tripeptides were determined at 25°C over a wide concentration range: -alanyl-glycine, -alanyl--alanine, DL--alanyl-glycine, glycyl-DL--alanine, L--alanyl-L-alanine, DL--alanyl-DL--alanine, DL--alanyl-DL-valine, DL--alanyl--alanine, glycyl--aminobutyric acid, glycyl-L-leucine and DL--alanyl-glycylglycine. The excess enthalpies H^ex and partial molar relative enthalpies L₂ were calculated and enthalpy coefficients of intermolecular interaction were analysed using the additivity principle of Savage and Wood. The concentration dependence of the enthalpic characteristics of peptide-peptide interactions is discussed based on of their hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity. The three-stage model of peptide association is described using enthalpic coefficients of intermolecular interactions.     

α-Iodo-β-nitrostilbene in the reaction with morpholine and piperidine

The reaction of -iodo--nitrostilbene with morpholine or piperidine yields -nitro--morpholino- or -nitro--piperidinostilbene. The reaction is regioselective and stereospecific: only the iodine, and not the nitro group, is substituted; the product obtained has acis structure regardless of whether the initial substrate had acis- or atrans-configuration. The prereaction stage probably includes the formation of a charge-transfer complex between substrate and reagent.A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelemental Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117813 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1214–1216, May, 1992.     

Rearrangement ofα -trifluoromethyl-β-dialkylamino-β-fluoroacrylic acid N.N-dialkylamides

Conclusions When heated in the presence of a catalytic amount of BF₃ etherate,-trifluoromethyl--diethylamino--fluoroacrylic acid N, N-dimethylamide is reversibly isomerized to-trifluoromethyl--dimethylamino--fluoroacrylic acid N, N-diethylamide. The methyl esters of-trifluoromethyl--diethylammo--fluoroacrylic acid and-trifluoromethyl--phenoxy--fluoroacrylic acid N,N-dimethylamide are not isomerized under the same conditions.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No.1, pp.137–141, January, 1976.     

Mass-spectrometric analysis of some derivatives of α,β-didehydrotryptophan and peptides including it

Summary It has been established that the mass spectra of N-Bz, and N-Ac derivatives of peptides containing ,-didehydrotryptophan residues have characteristic peaks of ions with m/e 130, 156 (157), and 183; these permit the identification in peptides of the ,-didehydrotryptophan residue, which is unstable on hydrolysis. In the course of the fragmentation of dehydropeptides by the amino acid route, the formation of the intense peak of the ion of an azlactone of aN-acyl-,-didehydrotryptophan is characteristic. The mass-spectrometric method can be used for determining the amino acid sequences of peptides containing ,-didehydrotryptophan residues.M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. M. M. Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 187–181, March–April, 1979.     

The triterpene glycosides ofpatrinia intermedia roem et schult

Conclusions It has been established that patrinoside D₁ is the -D-glucopyranosido(13) -D-xylopyranosido(12) -L-rhamnosido(14)--D-xylopyranoside (13) of oleanolic acidKhimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 84–89, 1969     

Steroid glycosides from the starfish Crossaster papposus

Two new steroid glycosides have been isolated from an ethanolic extract of the starfishCrossaster papposus — crossasterosides P₁ and P₂. On the basis of chemical transformations and spectral characteristics, the structure of crossasteroside P₁ has been established as (24R)-24-ethyl-5-cholestane-3,6,8,15,16,29-hexaol 29-O-[2-O-methyl--D-xylopyranosyl-(1 2)--D-galactofuranoside]. Crossasteroside P₂ is its 4-hydroxy analogue.Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 669–673, September–October, 1989.     

Triterpene Glycosides of Fatsia japonica. IV. Structure of Glycosides D1 and D2 from Seeds

Seeds ofFatsia japonica(Araliaceae) afforded the known hederagenin 3-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(12)-O--L-arabinopyranoside and the new triterpene glycoside D ₂ , for which the structure hederagenin 3-O--D- galactopyranosyl-(12)-O--L-arabinopyranoside was proposed based on chemical methods and NMR spectroscopy     

A TPR study of SiO2-supported Ru?Ag catalysts

A H₂ chemisorption and TPR study of Ru–Ag/SiO₂ catalysts reveals that after oxidation at 373 K this systems behaves like Ru–Cu/SiO₂. High temperature oxidation, however, does not result in the separation of the metal like in the Ru–Cu case but in the redispersion of Ag on top of the Ru particles.

---

H₂ Ru–Ag/SiO₂ , 373 Ru–Cu/SiO₂. , , , Ru–Cu, Ag Ru.

     

Pulchellin C and inuchinenolide C from Inula caspica

The pseudoguaianolide inuchinenolide C and the eudesmanolide pulchellin C have been isolated for the first time from the flower heads and leaves ofInula caspica Blume, and their spatial structures have been established by an x-ray structural experiment as 2,6-diacetoxy-6-hydroxy-1,7(H),8,10(H)-pseudoguai-11(13)-en-8,12-olide and 2,3-dihydroxy-5,7,8(H)-eudesma-4(15),11(13)-dien-8,12-olide, respectively.Institute of Organic Synthesis and Coal Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, Karaganda. A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organometallic Compounds, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 748–757, November–December, 1990.     

Fluoroaliphatic esters of fluorosulfonic acid. 6. Interaction of fluorine-containing α,β-bis-fluorosulfatocarbonyl compounds with nucleophilic reagents

Fluorine-containing ,-fluorosulfatocarbonyl compounds interact with halides of alkali metals with the formation of -halogeno--dicarbonyl derivatives.A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Heteroorganic Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 177813 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 715–719, March, 1992.     

Decomposition of benzenediazonium fluoborate in esters of α,β-unsaturated acids

Summary It was shown that In contrast to the Meerwein-Koelsch reaction, the decomposition of benzenediazonlum fluoborate In esters of ,-unsaturated acids proceeds by a heterolytlc mechanism with the phenyl attacking the -carbon and the carbalkoxyl group of these esters. The reaction with ethyl crotonate gave -methylatropic acid (after hydrolysis) and a small amount of a dibasic acid, C₁₄H₁₆O₄ (or C₁₄H₁₄O₄). With methyl acrylate it gave atropic acid, phenyl acrylate, and a smaller amount of -methyl--phenylglutaric acid. With methyl methacrylate It formed benzylacrylic acid and the product of further conversions of phenyl methacrylate, namely the keto phenol 2-methyl-5-hydroxyindan-1-one.     

Steroid glycosides of the leaves of Yucca aloifolia

Two new steroid glycosides have been isolated from the leaves of aloe yucca and their structures have been established. Glycosides B and C are tigogenin penta-and hexaosides. Glycoside B, which we have called yuccaloeside B is (25R)-5-spirostan-3-ol 3-{[O--D-glucopyranosyl-(12)]-[O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(14)-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(13)]-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(14)--D-galactopyranoside}, and glycoside C, which we have called yuccaloeside C is (25R)-5-spirostan-3-ol 3-{[(O--D-glucopyranosyl-(13)-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(12)]-[O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(14)-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(13)]-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(14)--D-galactopyranoside}.N. G. Kutateladze Institute of Pharmacochemistry of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 537–542, July–August, 1987.     

Ring opening of fluoroalkyl-containing α,β-epoxyketones by aromatic amines

Aromatic amines cause ,-epoxyketones containing a -fluoroalkyl group to undergo ring opening at the -position to give -amino--hydroxyketones.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 882–883, May, 1994.     

Investigations in the field of complex lipids

Summary 1. The synthesis of L-(+)--oleoyl--linoleoyl--glycerylphosphorylethanolamine has been effected.2. During the investigations the following substances were isolated and characterized: L--oleoyl--glycerylphosphoryl-N-phthaloylethanolamine and L---linoleoyl--glycerylphosphoryl-N-phthanoylethanolamine.Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 80–83, 1966