Benzoyl Group Migrations in Methyl 2,3,6-Trio-O-Benzoyl-4-deoxy-4-(N-Hydroxyamino)-α-D-Gluco and α-D-Galacto-Pyranosides

Abstract

Deoxy-N-hydroxyaminosugars constitute a novel family of sugars. The interest in them is mainly due to their close structural similarity to natural sugars, coupled, with their easy oxidation to nitroxide free radicals, enabling their study by ESR spectroscopy.¹ From the point of view of their chemical reactivity, the hydroxyamino group is an ambident nucleophile possessing complex orbital and topographical factors, which direct its reactivity to either of its heteroatoms.     

Terminal Deoxy Hydroxyamino Sugars

Abstract

Reduction of sugar aldoximes gave in good yield the corresponding terminal deoxy hydroxyamino sugars. These compounds were found to be reasonably stable (they could be kept for some weeks at 4° C). On standing in the air, these compounds in solution were spontaneously oxidized to the corresponding nitroxide free radicals whose ESR spectra gave useful structural information.     

Effect of Soft Segment Molecular Weight and 3-Methyl Side Group on Microstructural Separation in Polyurethane Elastomers

Abstract

The object of this study was to assess the effect of the chain length and of the pendant 3-methyl side group in the soft segment of polyurethane (PU) elastomers. In addition, the effect of annealing-quenching on the degree of microstructural segregation between the hard and soft segments was also investigated. The study employed electron spin resonance (ESR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). Samples for ESR measurements were spin-labeled with the nitroxide probe, 4-hydroxy-2,2′,6,6′-piperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPOL), by reaction of an isocyanate group with the hydroxyl group of TEMPOL. The nitroxide label is therefore located at a chain end. The PU's were based on 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), poly(oxytetramethylene) glycols (PTMO), and hydroxyl-terminated random copolymers of tetrahydrofuran and 3-methyl-tetrahydrofuran (THF/Me-THF). Purified 1,4-butanediol (BD) was used as a chain extender. The elastomers made from higher molecular weight (MW) soft segments have better phase segregation than their lower MW counterparts. The 3-methyl side groups on the PTMO backbone have some effect on the arrangements of the two domains. ESR analysis indicated that the increase in the MW of THF/Me-THF decreased the degree of mixing between the hard and soft segments. In PU elastomers made from high MW soft segments, the presence of crystallinity was observed from the DSC measurements. The crystallinity of the soft segments was disrupted by the existence of the 3-methyl side groups.     

一种新型的光调控磁分子体系的合成与性能研究

将稳定的四甲基咪唑啉氮氧自由基嫁接到新型的光致变色化合物双(6-甲基-3-乙基-3-羟基-1-氧代-2-亚茚满基) (1)的分子母体中, 成功合成了新型多功能化合物1-((6'-甲基-3,3'-二乙基-3,3'-二羟基-1,1'-二氧代-[2,2']-联亚茚满基)-6-基甲基)-4-(4",4",5",5"-四甲基咪唑啉-2"-基)吡啶溴化物 3"-氧化物 1"-氧基(3). 对化合物3的光致变色性质, ESR波谱以及磁性质进行了研究. 化合物3光照后颜色发生变化, ESR信号表现出久期增宽. 变温磁化率的测试结果显示, 化合物3光照后反铁磁相互作用进一步增强. 研究结果表明化合物3的颜色和磁性的变化均可用光照进行调控.     

Anisotropic rotation of spin-probes in polymers

The observed change in the ESR spectra of a nitroxide spin-probe as it passes through the transition >T_g found in amorphous polymers is explained in terms of a change in the anisotropic rotation of the probe. The degree of anisotropy factor ? is calculated for various polymers and probes, and shows the most marked change with Tempol Benzoate (I) in atactic polypropylene and plasticized polystyrene. Results for a steroid nitroxide probe are also presented.     

Effect of nitroxide radicals on chemically induced dynamic electron polarization of spin-correlated radical pairs in aqueous micellar solutions of sodium dodecyl sulfate

The multispin systems consisting of spin-correlated radical pairs (SCRPs) and stable nitroxide radicals, localized in micelles of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), were studied by ESR and pulse laser photolysis techniques. In all the systems studied, the stable nitroxide radicals exert no effect on the shape of the ESR spectra of the SCRPs (in particular, on the shape of their antiphase structure) and on the decay kinetics of the ESR signal of the SCRPs. In the SDS micelles, the electron spin polarization transfer from the nonequilibrium electron spin states of the molecular triplets (SCRP precursors) is the most efficient mechanism of generation of the electron spin polarization in nitroxide radicals. The experimental data also show that the nitroxide radicals and SCRP radicals are most probably distributed uniformly in the micellar phase. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1390–1401, July, 2008.     

Paramagnetic probes for the investigation of ordered and disordered perfluorosurfactants,perfluoropolyethers and perfluorinated ionomers

In this review we describe the use of transition metal ions (Cu²⁺, Ti³⁺, VO²⁺, Mn²⁺) and stable nitroxide radicals with different shape, size and charge as paramagnetic probes for the study of perfluorinated compounds in the presence of solvents by electron spin resonance (ESR, ESE, ENDOR) spectroscopy. The physical state of the swelling solvents in perfluorinated ionomers (Nafion and perfluoropolyethers) is deduced by the analysis of the ESR spectral parameters and linewidths as a function of the operating frequency and temperature. The formation of metal aggregates in aqueous and nonaqueous solvents is discussed. The spectral characteristics and relaxation behavior of nitroxides is particularly informative when aggregates such as micelles, lamellar phases and other ordered systems, are formed in solution.     

Redox-switching of intramolecular magnetic interaction through π-conjugation mode change of 1,2-bis(4-dianisylamino)-1,2-bis(3-N-oxylamino)-substituted tetraarylethylene

To develop the redox-switching system of intramolecular magnetic interaction, 1,2-bis[3-(N-tert-butyl-N-oxylamino)phenyl]-1,2-bis[4-{N,N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)amino}phenyl]ethylene, tetraarylethylene with two nitroxide radical groups at the meta-position, was synthesized, and characterized by the electrochemical method and ESR spectroscopy. Cyclic voltammetry showed the tetraarylethylene core has the lower oxidation potential than the substituted nitroxide radical moiety. ESR spectroscopy in frozen solution revealed that the neutral form shows the fine-structured spectrum characteristic of the spin triplet species, while the dicationic form shows the anisotropic hyperfine-structured spectrum characteristic of the randomly-oriented nitroxide radical, indicating the drastic change of intramolecular magnetic interaction.     

Dérivés de désoxy-hydroxylamino-sucres et radicaux libres diglycosylnitroxydes correspondants. Communication préliminaire

Deoxy-hydroxylamino-sugar Derivatives and Corresponding Diglycosylnitroxides Radicals A number of sugar aldonitrones, including C,N-diglycosylnitrones, and ketonitrones have been treated with Grignard reagents or cyanide anion leading to the corresponding deoxy-hydroxylamino-sugars. On oxidation (air, H₅IO₆ or PbO₂), these compounds gave the corresponding nitroxide radicals whose ESR. spectra are reported. Analogues of disaccharides, in which the interglycosidic O-bridge is replaced by a hydroxyimino group, have been obtained by reacting a partially blocked sugar bearing a free hemiacetal group either with a deoxy-hydroxylaminosugar or with hydroxylamine, followed by reaction with an aldehydosugar and a reducing agent (NaBH₄). These reactions represents the key synthetic steps for the oligosaccharide-type synthesis of deoxy-hydroxyimino-oligosaccharides. Their oxidation yielded the corresponding nitroxide radicals whose ESR. spectra gave information on the conformation about the ‘interglycosidic’ bridge. This type of compounds should constitute useful spin markers for biological studies.     

ESR studies on the solvation of perfluoro-n-alkyl t-butyl nitroxides — A new scale for electronegativity of perfluoro-n-alkyl groups

Pentafluoroethyl t-butyl nitroxides (3) have been generated by the use of electron-transfer reactions of O-benzoyl-N-t-butylhydroxylamine (1) and pentafluoropropanoyl peroxide (2) in F113 (CFCl₂CF₂Cl) solution. ESR measurement of a_N and a_F ^β values for 3 in 11 solvents have been carried out at 17 ± 2 °C. The a_N values for 3 in 10 aprotic solvents (but not in i-PrOH) show a linear correlation with the cybotactic solvent parameter E_T, i.e. a_N = 3.02 × 10⁻² E_T ± 10.46. Together with the similar correlation analysis for trifluoromethyl t-butyl nitroxide (4) and heptafluoropropyl t-butyl nitroxide (5) reported previously, the physical significance for the slope, slope × E_T, the extrapolated intercept on the a_N axis, is linked to the sensitivity of the nitroxide toward solvation, the magnitude of the overall solution effect on the a_N values, and the intrinsic a_N values of 3, 4, 5 in the ideal gaseous state, respectively. The intercepts on the a_N axis, 11.34 G, 11.56 G and 11.37 G may serve a new measure of electronegativity for CF₃, C₂F₅ and n-C₃F₇, respectively. The plots of a_N versus noncybotactic solvent constants, such as dipolar moment (μ) and dielectric constant (ɛ), all show random cases.     

Syntheses,crystal structures and magnetic properties of a new thienyl-substituted nitronyl nitroxide and its copper(II) complex

A new building block for molecule-based magnetic materials???thiophene-substituted nitronyl nitroxide, NIT2-thp, [1, NIT2-thp?=?4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-(thiophenal-2-yl)imidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide] and its copper(II) complex [Cu(hfac)₂]₃(NIT2-thp)₂ (2) (hfac?=?hexafluoroacetylacetonate) have been synthesized and characterized structurally and magnetically. For 1, dimers were formed and arranged through intermolecular interactions, the shortest contact between nitroxide groups is 4.115?Å among adjacent dimers. In 2 two types of copper interaction with 1 give three colinear Cu(II) ions linked by two μ???1,4 bridging nitroxide ligands. The central metal ion is in a distorted octahedron, axially coordinated by two nitroxide oxygen atoms, while the two external metal ions are in distorted square-pyramidal environments with the nitroxide oxygen atom coordinated in the basal plane. Magnetic susceptibility data for 1 and 2 have been measured in the range 3–300?K. There are antiferromagnetic interactions (J?=??3.89?cm^?1) between the dimers of 1 and also ferromagnetic interactions in 2. The magnetic properties of 1 and 2 are discussed in connection with their crystal structures.     

Modulating spin delocalization in conjugated nitroxides: 2-(N-aminoxyl-N-tert-butyl)-benzothiazole

The first controlled synthesis of the title radical, 1, was achieved by oxidation of a hydroxylamine precursor; the radical itself can thus readily be isolated, studied by ESR and UV-vis, and compared to results of computational modeling. The benzothiazole ring induces substantial delocalization of the nitroxide spin density (a(NO) = 9.2 G, a(ring N) = 2.7 G, about 10% more than is seen in the benzimidazole nitroxide analog.     

Stable nitroxide radicals from phenylisatogen and arylimino-derivatives with organo-metallic compounds

Stable nitroxide radicals were obtained by the oxidation of 1-hydroxyindolines prepared by allowing the organo-metallic compounds to act upon 2-phenylisatogen and arylimino-derivatives. In both cases nitroxides are obtained with a ^N of approximately 9 gauss, in agreement with similar known compounds. The ESR spectra of numerous nitroxide radicals are discussed and a number of cases of magnetic non-equivalence of methylenic protons adjacent to asymmetric carbon are brought to light.     

Introduction

Abstract

The initiation mechanism for spontaneous copolymerizations of vinyl sulfides (VS) with electron-accepting monomers such as maleic anhydride (MAn), diethyl fumarate (DEF), acrylonitrile (AN), and methyl acrylate (MA) was investigated by means of spin trapping technique using 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane as a spin trapping agent. From the ESR spectrum observed from the system ethyl VS-DEF, two types of radicals, a vinyl radical (I; RSCH=CH) and an alkyl (1, 2-dicarboethoxyethyl) radical (II; C₂H₅OCOCHCH₂COOC₂H₅) which derived from VS and DEF, respectively, were detected as their nitroxides. Similar radicals, I and III (NCCH₂CH₂), were also observed from the system VS-AN, but in the system VS-MA, three types of radicals, I, IV (CH₃OCOCH₂CH₂), and V (CH₃OCOCHCH₃) were trapped as their nitroxides. In the system isopropyl VS-MAn, I and a propagating radical (VI) ～～CH₂CHSR, were detected. The system isobutyl vinyl ether-MAn also showed a weak ESR spectrum due to the nitroxide from Radical I. These initiating radicals were assumed to be produced from the charge transfer complex formed between both donor and acceptor monomers. Based on these results, the cross-initiation mechanism for spontaneous alternating copolymerization is discussed.     

Preparation,structures, and magnetic properties of precursors for chelating compounds of 2-pyridyl nitroxide derivatives

We successfully synthesized and characterized two precursors for paramagnetic chelating ligands, N-p-anisyl-N-2-pyridylhydroxylamine and 2,6-bis(N-t-butylhydroxylamino)pyridine. The former can be regarded as a rare case since N,N-diarylhydroxylamines cannot be isolated in general because of facile autoxidation. The oxidation with silver(I) oxide gave radicals showing typical nitroxide ESR signals, but the resultant radicals were unstable under ambient conditions. Theoretical DFT calculation indicated that the bisnitroxide radical, pyridine-2,6-diyl bis(t-butyl nitroxide), had a triplet ground state.     

Fast Controlled Radical Polymerization of Styrene Mediated by Oligomeric Nitroxides Formed In Situ

In the presence of an oligomeric hindered secondary amine added with peracetic acid as the oxidant, radical polymerization of styrene is fast and controlled at 110 °C. Under these experimental conditions, an oligomeric nitroxide is formed in situ. This polymerization is 2.5 faster than polymerization mediated by the alkoxyamine derivated from TIPNO (2,2,5‐trimethyl‐4‐phenyl‐3‐azahexane‐3‐nitroxide), which generates a low molar mass nitroxide. Similarly, substitution of a low molar mass secondary amine, 2,2,6,6‐tetramethylpiperidone (4‐oxo‐TMP), for the oligomeric secondary amine maintains the control on the polymerization, which is however 4.6 times slower, all the other conditions being the same. The in situ formation of the oligomeric nitroxide has been confirmed by electron spin resonance (ESR).

     

Molecular System Based on Novel Photochromic Biindenylidenedione Derivative Demonstrating Photomodulation of Magnetism

Stable nitronyl nitroxide radical and imino nitroxide radical were incorporated into the benzene rings of novel photochromic 7,7′‐dimethyl‐[2,2′‐bi‐1H‐indene]‐3,3′‐diethyl‐3,3′‐dihydroxy‐1,1′‐dione ( 1 ), leading to the synthesis of novel multifunctional compounds 4 and 5 . The photochromic properties, ESR spectroscopy and magnetic properties of the title compounds were investigated. Compounds 4 and 5 possess visible photochromism upon photoirradiation, and their ESR signals undergo secular broadening after photoirradiation. The magnetic susceptibility measurement shows that the antiferromagnetic interaction of 4 and 5 becomes stronger after photoirradiation. In compounds 4 and 5 there are two kinds of spin centers after photoirradiation: one is nitroxide radical, and the other is photo‐generated radicals from two indanone moieties. Our results demonstrated that the colour and magnetic properties of compounds 4 and 5 could be modulated by photoirradiation.     

Self-diffusion and electron spin exchange of hydrophobic probes in dilute solution

Electron spin exchange rate constants have been measured by ESR spectroscopy for a nitroxide spin probe in a number of solvents, including water. The apparent collision rate constants (k _c ^′ ) calculated from the spin exchange rate constants showed marked deviations from the Smoluchowsky equation (k _c ^′ η=const), which were greatest in solvents of lowest viscosity. These effects are attributed to inefficiency of the spin exchange process. Self-diffusion coefficients (D) were measured for diamagnetic analogs of the nitroxide spin probe in similar solvent systems by pulsed field gradient NMR spectroscopy. TheD values gave reasonable agreement when corrected for viscosity (Dη=const). Collision rate constants calculated fromD were in good agreement with those measured by ESR in solvents of high viscosity. Thek _c ^′ value for the spin probe in water was significantly lower than that in isoviscous organic solvents. This effect is discussed in terms of a hydrophobic hydration shell for the spin probe which acts as an additional barrier to collision.     

ESR imaging of polymers and solid materials

EPR imaging was applied to the study of several important processes in polymers and materials. The solvent diffusion and induced swelling was visualized in the water/DMF or toluene/DMF interactions with polycarbonate or polystyrene molded rods. The cross-sectional images revealed non-homogeneous solute/solvent diffusion, rod expansion and crack development. The ESR lineshapes in all cases above confirmed that the nitroxide imaging agent did not interact significantly with the polymer matrix; thus the paramagnetic distribution reflected bulk solvent distribution quite well. The diffusion of an electrolyte buffer (Krebs) solution containing a nitroxide spin probe was followed in a cross-sectional image of a polyacrylamide gel rod. A one-dimensional radial diffusion constant was calculated for the solvent piperidinol nitroxide spin probe, TEMPOL. Lastly, solid coal rods were monitored during mild pyrolysis at 150°C in air. Here the naturally occurring organic radical composition was imaged. Even with the increase in total ESR signal and subsequent decline to ca. the initial levels, the coal rod cross-section was essentially homogeneous in paramagnetic centers throughout the heating process. All of the imaging above utilized a homemade L-band, flat loop surface coil spectrometer.     

Template-Dependent Incorporation of Spin-Labeled Thymidine Analogs into Viral DNA

The synthesis of novel pppU_d analogs substituted at position C(5) with tethered nitroxide radicals is reported. It is shown that these analogs can serve as good substrates for E. coli DNA polymerase (Pol I) and T-4 DNA polymerase using lambda-phage DNA as template. The template-dependent incorporation of the substrates was established by radio-labeling and ESR experiments.