Flat corannulene: when a transition state becomes a stable molecule

Flat corannulene has been considered so far only as a transition state of the bowl-to-bowl inversion process. This study was driven by the prediction that substituents with strong steric repulsion could destabilize the bowl-shaped conformation of this molecule to such an extent that the highly unstable planar geometry would become an isolable molecule. To examine the substituents'' effect on the corannulene bowl depth, optimized structures for the highly-congested decakis(t-butylsulfido)corannulene were calculated. The computations, performed with both the M06-2X/def2-TZVP and the B3LYP/def2-TZVP methods (the latter with and without Grimme''s D3 dispersion correction), predict that this molecule can achieve two minimum structures: a flat carbon framework and a bowl-shaped structure, which are very close in energy. This rather unusual compound was easily synthesized from decachlorocorannulene under mild reaction conditions, and X-ray crystallographic studies gave similar results to the theoretical predictions. This compound crystallized in two different polymorphs, one exhibiting a completely flat corannulene core and the other having a bowl-shaped conformation.

The first flat metal-free corannulene derivative was predicted by computations and achieved by synthesis.     

Fluorimetric determination of boron with resacetophenone as a reagent

Summary A method has been developed for the fluorimetric determination of boric acid, which gives a blue fluorescence with resacetophenone in sulphuric acid or phosphoric acid medium. The method has the advantage that the reaction does not require much time, because the fluorescence intensity reaches its maximum immediately after mixing the reagents and does not also decrease with time. The intensity of fluorescence can be measured with a fluorimeter and the amount of boric acid determined from a calibration curve.     

Tautomerism of anthraquinones: X. Quinizarin boron complex

Products of reactions of hydroxyanthraquinones with boric acid exist as equilibrium mixtures of tautomeric boron complexes and boric acid esters in which one or two boron atoms are not coordinated to carbonyl groups. Tautomerism is responsible for the appearance of several π_l,π bands in the electronic absorption spectra and considerable differences in the data obtained by different authors. Boron-containing quinizarin derivatives have mostly 1,10-quinoid structures. The use of quinizarin as an analytical reagent for the determination of boron is based on replacement of tautomeric equilibria due to complex formation rather than on coordination-induced red shift of the absorption maximum.     

Phenylthiocopper trimethylphosphite complex. A reagent for the preparation of thioallenes.

The title complex reacts with propargyl halides and, in situ generated, propargyl mesylates to produce thioallenes in good yields, via an allylic inversion.     

CaO-超细高岭土复合固硫剂固硫动力学研究

利用高岭土的加工产品超细高岭土，制备了CaO-超细高岭土复合固硫剂，用热分析法研究其固硫性能和特征，并用等效粒子模型对该固硫剂固硫反应的动力学过程进行模拟和计算，得到了固硫反应的动力学参数。研究表明，CaO-超细高岭土复合固硫剂有着较好的固硫率，特别是高于1?000?℃时在固硫反应后期的产物层扩散控制阶段呈现很好的固硫率增长，1 009 ℃下固硫率较CaO提高达26％。     

Efficient cyclopropanation of active methylene compounds. A serendipitous discovery

Cyclopropanation of active methylene compounds has been achieved in good yields with ethylene carbonate as the cyclopropanating agent in the presence of a simple base.     

钴和硼的联合测定

建立了一种联合测定硼酰化钴中钴含量和硼含量的分析方法。采用二甲酚橙为指示剂,EDTA为滴定剂测钴时,加入孔雀绿作衬托剂,可明显改善滴定终点。采用甘露醇强化硼酸滴定硼时,以EDTA为掩蔽剂,可消除二价钴对硼分析的干扰,改用溴甲酚绿－甲基红－酚酞三元混合指示剂作为测定硼的指示剂,使滴定终点灵敏,准确。     

A facile synthesis of 2,4,6-trichloroborazine from boron trichloride-dimethylsulfide complex and ammonium chloride

<正>2,4,6-Trichloroborazine has been recognized as a desirable monomer for the preparation of high-performance boron nitride fibers through polymer derived ceramics route.So a high yield and facile synthesis of 2,4,6-trichloroborazine is essential in practice. Using boron trichloride-dimethylsulfide complex((CH_3)_2S·BCl_3) and ammonium chloride(NH_4Cl) as starting materials and toluene(C_6H_5CH_3) as solvent,the synthesis of 2,4,6-trichloroborazine to give high yield is reported.     

新显色试剂3,4-二羟基甲亚胺-H与硼高灵敏显色反应的研究及应用

在pH 8乙酸铵缓冲溶液中,硼(Ⅲ)与3,4-二羟基甲亚胺-H发生灵敏的显色反应,形成稳定的黄色配合物,硼配合物最大吸收峰位于430 nm,表观摩尔吸光系数为2.95×104L.mol-1.cm-1。在25 mL溶液中,0~20μg硼(Ⅲ)符合比耳定律。此外,该显色反应体系还具有良好的选择性和稳定性,多数金属离子允许量超过mg级,方法已用于茶叶中微量硼的测定。     

Samarium(III)-propylenediaminetetraacetate complex: A water-soluble chiral shift reagent for use in high-field NMR

Samarium(III)-(R)- or (S)-propylenediaminetetraacetate complex resolved the enantiomer signals of alpha-amino acids on high-field (1)H and (13)C NMR with remarkably less line broadening than was previously reported for the Eu(III) complex of the same ligand. A widely observed regularity between the absolute configuration of enantiomers and the relative shift of their NMR signals is useful for the assignment of absolute configuration.     

Polymeric arylsulfonylnitromethane: A novel polymer reagent

p-Vinylphenylsulfonylnitromethane ( 3 ) was synthesized by the reaction of sodium p-styrenesulfinate with nitromethane. Free radical copolymerizations of 3 with styrene and N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone provided soluble copolymers. Conversions of RCH₂X (X = Br, OAc) with the copolymers as reagents proceeded in a different manner from the corresponding lowmolecular-weight compound, phenylsulfonylnitromethane, to afford RCOOH in addition to the expected RCH₂CH₂NO₂ and RCH₂COOH; no nitriles were formed.     

2,2'-Dimercaptodiethylsulphide: A potential analytical reagent

The compound 2,2'-dimercaptodiethylsulphide has been investigated with regard to the stability of its solutions to air oxidation, its acid strength, its reactivity towards metal ions, the nature of its Ni(II) and Pd(II) complexes in solution, and its applicability to the determination of small amounts of Ni(II) and Pd(II). Studies on the Ni(II) complex extend the work reported previously by others and are not in complete accord with it. The results presented show that 2,2'-dimercaptodiethylsulphide is a promising analytical reagent.     

A ternary complex reagent for an asymmetric Michael reaction of lithium ester enolates with enoates

A lithium ester enolate was activated by both a chiral etheral ligand and a lithium amide to form a ternary complex reagent that reacted with enoates giving the corresponding Michael addition products in reasonably high enantioselectivity of up to 97% ee.