Ionization constants of a number of alkaloids used in medicine

The pK_a values of a number of alkaloids in water or in aqueous ethanol have been measured by the potentiometric titration method: nuphleine — 4.59, 6.98; brevicolline — 5.17, 8.02; chelidonine — 6.40; sanguinarine — 7.32; chelerythrine — 7.53; stepharine — 8.48; d-pseudoephedrine — 9.49. For nuphleine and brevicolline, each of which has two nitrogen atoms capable of protonation, assignments have been made of pK_a values to the corresponding atoms on the basis of the results of UV spectroscopy.All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Medicinal Plants, Moscow. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 337–341, May–June, 1984.     

Physicochemical properties and substrate specificity of protease C from dormant cotton seeds

The substrate specificity of a proteolytic enzyme — protease C — isolated from cotton seeds has been studied. The activity of protease C is suppressed completely under the action of diisopropyl phosphorofluoridate. Protein inhibitors — duck ovomucoid, soybean inhibitor, and also TPCK — suppressed the activity of protease C to different degrees. On the basis of results obtained in the hydrolysis of the cottonseed reserve proteins, 7S and 11S globulins, and the B chain of insulin, protease C has been assigned to the serine group of endopeptidases. The optimum conditions — pH, time, and temperature — at which protease C exhibits its maximum activity has been determined.Institute of Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 744–746, September–October, 1988.     

The structures of tenuferin,tenuferinin, and tenuferidin

Summary Three new substances — tenuferin, tenuferinin, and tenuferidin — have been isolated from the roots ofFerula tenuisecta Eug. Kor. It has been shown that they are esters of an undescribed sesquiterpene alcohol — 8,10-dihydroxy-3,4-epoxyguaiane — and isovanillic, vanillic, and p-hydroxybenzoic acids, respectively.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodynkh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 70–75, January–February, 1978.     

Phytoecdysteroids of plants of the genus Melandrium I. Polypodin B 22-acetate from Melandrium turkestanicum

Known ecdysteroids — ecdysterone, ecdysterone 22-acetate, polypodin B, integristerone A, and sileneosides A and D — and a new phytoecdysteroid — polypodin B 22-acetate — have been found in the epigeal parts of the plantMelandrium turkestanicum (Rg1.) Vved. (family Caryophyllaceae).Institute of Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 480–483, July–August, 1990.     

Crystalline and molecular structures of the alkaloid delcosine

The molecular and crystalline structures of the diterpene alkaloid delcosine (iliensine) have been investigated by x-ray structural analysis. It has been confirmed that the OH group in ring A is located at C(1) and has the orientation. The rings in the molecule have the following conformations: A, B, and D — boat; C and F — envelope; E — chain. The ring linkages are: A/B — trans; A/E — cis; B/C — cis; B/D — cis; B/F — cis. The conformations and linkages of the rings are identical with those observed in lycoctonine.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 754–758, November–December, 1983.     

Thermoanalytische Untersuchungen psychotroper Substanzen vom Typ der Abwandlungsprodukte des Phenothiaztns und der Butyrophenone auf Isomorphie und Polymorphie. II

Zusammenfassung Aus der Gruppe der Dibenzoazepinderivate wurden die Hydrochloride von Clomipramin, Imipramin und Desipramin miteinander kombiniert und aus der Gruppe der Dibenzocykloheptadiene bzw.-triene die Hydrochloride von Amitriptylin, Nortriptylin, Noxiptilin und Protriptylin.Bei fünf der untersuchten binären Systeme liegt Mischkristallbildung aufgrund von Isomorphiebeziehungen mit instabilen Modifikationen vor: Imipraminhydrochlorid — Clomipraminhydrochlorid, Imipraminhydrochlorid — Desipraminhydrochlorid, Clomipraminhydrochlorid — Desipraminhydrochlorid, Nortriptylinhydrochlorid — Protriptylinhydrochlorid und Noxiptilinhydrochlorid-Amitriptylinhydrochlorid. Das Substanzpaar Protriptylinhydrochlorid — Noxiptilinhydrochlorid bildet eine Molekülverbindung im Verhältnis 11. In drei Fällen werden einfache Eutektika gebildet.

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Thermoanalytical investigations of psychotropic substances derived from phenothiazine and butyrophenones for isomorphism and polymorphism. II

Summary From the group of dibenzoazepine derivatives, the hydrochlorides of clomipramine, imipramine and desipramine were combined with each other and from the group of dibenzocycloheptadienes or -trienes the hydrochlorides of amitriptyline, nortriptyline, noxiptiline and protryptiline. In five of the binary systems investigated, there is formation of mixed crystals due to isomorphism with unstable modifications: imipramine hydrochloride — clomipramine hydrochloride, imipramine hydrochloride — desipramine hydrochloride, clomipramine hydrochloride 3- desipramine hydrochloride, nortriptyline hydrochloride — protriptyline hydrochloride and noxiptiline hydrochloride — amitriptyline hydrochloride. The substance pair protriptyline hydrochloride — noxiptiline hydrochloride forms a molecular compound in the ratio 11. In three cases, simple eutectics are formed.

     

Chemical synthesis and enzymatic assembly of fragments of the DNA coding immunodominant epitopes of human immunodeficiency virus

More than twenty 13- to 55-membered oligo(poly)nucleotides have been synthesized by the H-phosphonate solid-phase method in the manual variant using an original procedure. From the oligonucleotides obtained, seven DNA duplexes coding immunodominant epitopes of HIV-1 proteins have been formed: 598–609 and 737–748 gp41, 91–115 and 105–115 gag, and 940–951 pol and a number of its mutants. The ligase assembly and polymerization of the DNA duplexes obtained has been carried out. The efficiency of ligation amounted to from 60 to 90%. The possibility of their directed polymerization was determined by the flanking of the duplexes by partially completed half-sites of restrictases BamHI and XhoI.Abbreviations adopted: HIV-1 — human immunodeficiency virus, type 1; (+)-chain — the coding chain — and (–)-chain the chain complementary to the coding chain of the DNA duplex; CPG — controlled-pore glass; PAAG — polyacrylamide gel; Py — pyridine.D. I. Ivanovskii Institute of Virology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow. V. A. Engel'gardt Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 393–399, May–June, 1990.     

Extractive substances of the bark of Picea obovata

The chemical composition of a petroleum ether extract of the bark of the Siberian spruce has been studied. Extracts included saturated aliphatic alcohols and C₁₆-C₂₄ acids — abietic, dehydroabietic, isopimaric, oleic, lineolic, and linolenic — alkyl ferulates, ketones, and alcohols of the serratene type, and also ⁴-stigmasten-3-one. Onoceradienedione and onoceradienediol — precursors of the serratene triterpenoids — and also a saturated vicinal diol — triacontane-10,11-diol — have been isolated from the extractive substances of conifer in the native form for the first time.Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 654–662, November–December, 1992.     

Molecular Structure of 1,3,5-Tris (Trimethylstannyl) Benzene: An Electron Diffraction Study

The molecular structure of 1,3,5-tris (trimethylstannyl) benzene has been determined by gas-phase electron diffraction. The C — C bond length is in good agreement with that in benzene. In agreement with the somewhat electron-releasing character of the substituents, the endocyclic bond angles at the substituents are somewhat smaller than 120°. The mean value of Sn — C bond lengths is greater than that in tetraphenyltin and tetramethyltin. The SnMe₃ groups appear freely rotating around the C_aryl — Sn bonds. The following bond lengths (r _g) and bond angles were determined: (Sn — C)_mean 2.150 ± 0.007 Å, C — C 1.399 ± 0.005 Å, (C — H)_mean 1.105 ± 0.006 Å, < C — C(Sn) — C 117.7 ± 1.7º, < C_aryl — Sn — C_methyl 106.7 ± 0.7º < Sn — C — H 111.5 ± 0.9º.     

Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of soluble aza analogs of phthalocyanine and naphthalocyanine

The syntheses of aryl-substituted octaaza analogs of phthalocyanine — tetra-2,3-(4,5-diphenylpyrazino)porphyrazin and its vanadyl complex — and also of the vanadyl complex of tetra-2,3-(4-phenylquinolino)porphyrazin — a tetraaza analog of naphthalocyanine — are described. A modified singlestage method for the synthesis of the previously reported tetra-2,3-(5-tert-butylpyrazino)porphyrazin is put forward. The electronic absorption spectra of the compounds synthesized have been studied in organic solvents and acid media — in sulfuric acid solution and in organic solvents with the addition of phenol or trichloroacetic acid.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 58–63, January, 1993.     

Synthesis of indoles from pyridinium salts 5. Secondary amines in the reaction of 3-nitropyridinium salts with acetone

The use of secondary amines in the reaction of 3-nitropyridinium salts with acetone makes it possible to isolate stable intermediates in the formation of indoles — (o-N,N-dialkylaminobenzyl)ketones — and to observe new reaction pathways — the formation of bisindolylpropanes and p-nitroanilines.See [1] for Communication 4.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1213–1221, September, 1988.     

Chemical modification of the tryptophan residues of the L-asparaginase of E. coli with N-bromosuccinimide

Summary The role of the tryptophan residues in the L-asparaginase molecule has been studied by the method of chemical modification with N-bromosuccinimide, and it has been established that in an acid medium this reagent modifies all four tryptophan residues present in the molecule, completely suppressing the activity of the enzyme.The substrate — L-asparagine — and a competing inhibitor — S-benzyl-N-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-cysteine — protect the L-asparaginase from the action of N-bromosuccinimide, which shows the role of the tryptophan in the catalytic center of the L-asparaginase.Institute of Organic Synthesis, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 228–231, March–April, 1975.     

Triterpene and steroid glycosides of the genusMelilotus and their genins III. Funkioside B and protodioscin from the seeds ofMelilotus tauricus

Two steroid glycosides belonging to the furostan series — funkioside B and protodioscin — have been isolated from the seeds of the plantMelilotus tauricus (Bieb.).Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 766–770, November–December, 1994.     

Synthesis of 2-methyl-5-phenylthieno[2,3-d]thiazole

The synthesis of a new heterocyclic base — 2-methyl-5-phenylthieno[2,3-d]thiazole — is described.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, 1624–1625, December, 1970.     

R?ntgenstrukturanalyse als unentbehrliches Hilfsmittel bei der absoluten Konfigurationszuordnung einiger Iridoidglucoside sowie daraus synthetisierter 12-epi-Prostaglandine

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X-ray-structure-analysis as indispensable tool in structure elucidation of some iridoidglucosides as well as 12-epi-prostaglandines derived from them

Abkürzungen C(OH)₄ -d-Glucopyranosyl - Ac CH₃—CO - Ts p-CH₃—C₆H₄—SO₂ - Cin C₆H₅—CH=CH—CO - HCin C₆H₅—CH₂—CH₂—CO—O - DME Dimethoxyethan     

The seed oil of Catalpa. I

Summary 1. The fatty-acid compositions of the seed oils of catalpas cultivated in the Soviet Union have been studied.2. The oil content of the seeds is 21.2–36.7%, the refractive index 1.4905–1.5400, and the iodine number 184.8–201.7.3. The following fatty acids have been found in catalpa oil (%): palmitic — 1.3–4.3; stearic — 1.1–2.5; heneicosanoic — 0.5–5.2; oleic — 5.5–9.8; linoleic — 39.6–50.3; linolenic — 0.4–1.8; and eleostearic — 32.8–46.2.4. The most accurate results for characterizing the degree of unsaturation of the fatty acids of the catalpa seed oils are given by Woburn's method of determining iodine numbers. The iodine numbers obtained experimentally agree with those calculated and consequently the addition of halogen to the system of double bonds takes place at all the double bonds.5. The degree of unsaturation of the fatty acids of catalpa oil characterized by the iodine numbers and refractive indices increases in the sequence of species southern, northern, teas, Chinese and has a tendency to rise on passing to more northerly zones, which is one more piece of evidence confirming the correctness of S. L. Ivanov's climatic theory of the structure of fats.Kalinin Polytechnic Institute. Moscow Branch of the All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Fats. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 331–337, May–June, 1977.     

Metallocomplex catalysis in reactions of inhibition of oxidation processes: Statement of the problem,and current status

This article is a review of research on metallocomplex catalysis of radical reactions — chain breaking and hydroperoxide decomposition — that lead to inhibition of the oxidation of organic compounds by molecular oxygen. Information on the mechanisms and applied aspects of metallocomplex catalysis of these reactions is summarized and correlated.As in Russian original — Translator.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 3–18, January–February, 1993.     

Structural Studies on Saturated Aqueous Solutions of Manganese(II), Cobalt(II), and Nickel(II) Chlorides by X-ray Diffraction

As a part of our studies on crystallization processes of electrolytes, the structure of aqueous solutions of MCl₂ (M = Mn, Co, Ni) equilibrated with hydrate crystals, MCl₂ · mH₂O (m = 6, 4, 2), was investigated by means of X-ray diffraction at 25, 40, 55, and 70°C. The complexes formed in MnCl₂ solutions, were found to be mixed–ligand chloroaqua octahedral complexes of M²⁺ ions with the Mn—O and Mn—Cl distances of about 220 and 251 pm, respectively. The average number of Mn—Cl and Mn—O interactions increased from 1.2 to 1.9 and decreased from 4.8 to 4.1, respectively, with changing MnCl₂ solutions from Mn25 (MnCl₂ solution at 25°C) to Mn70 (MnCl₂ solution at 70°C). In the octahedral species of Co²⁺, the Co—O and Co—Cl distances were found to be about 211 and 240 pm, respectively. With an increase in the saturated concentration by changing temperature from 25 to 70°C, the average coordination number of the Co—Cl contact per Co²⁺ increased from 0.5 to 1.2, and the average number of Co—O interactions decreased from 5.5 to 4.8. The structural analysis was carried out by taking into consideration the existence of the tetrahedral species in the solutions saturated at 40, 55, and 70°C, on the assumption of the existence of [CoCl₄]^2–. The Co—Cl distance was found to be 228 pm, while the number of Co—Cl interactions in the [CoCl₄] complex was calculated to be 3.7 by the least-squares calculations. The Ni—O and Ni—Cl distances were estimated to be about 206 and 237 pm, respectively. The frequency factor n of the Ni—O and Ni—Cl interactions decreased monotonously from 5.6 to 5.0 and increased from 0.4 to 1.0, respectively, with increasing NiCl₂ concentration. The n values of the Co—Cl and Ni—Cl interactions of the octahedral complexes increased sharply with concentration at higher concentrations. Comparing structures of the complexes in the saturated solutions and the hydrate crystals of these metal ions, we discussed a role of the complexing species on crystallization of the hydrates.     

Some characteristics of the alkali-soluble protein from the red alga Furcellaria fastigiata

Summary From the red agar-bearing alga furcellaria we have isolated an alkali-soluble protein. Its aminoacid composition and N-terminal acid — arginine — have been determined. It has been shown to belong to the group of glycoproteins. One of the possible types of carbohydrate — protein bonds is a O-glycosidic bond.Odeassa Institute of Building Engineering. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 400–404, May–June, 1975.