Heterocycles containing tellurium and nitrogen. 5. Basicity constants of benzazoles

The basicities (pK_BH+) of monotypically substituted 2-R-benzochalcogenazoles increase regularly on passing from benzoxazoles to benzotellurazoles.See [1] for Communication 4.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 836–837, June, 1991.     

Wholly aromatic polyamide-hydrazides. IV. Structure–property relationships for polymers containing p-phenylene and m-phenylene units

A series of wholly aromatic polyamide-hydrazides was investigated in order to acquire clear understanding of the influence exerted by controlled structural variations in these polymers upon some of important properties, such as chain flexibility, membrane permselectivity, and thermal as well as thermo-oxidative stability. For that reason, the content of para and meta phenylene units was varied within this series so that the changes in the latter were 12.5 mol % from polymer to polymer, starting from an overall content of 0–50 mol %. The polymers were prepared by a low-temperature solution polycondensation reactin of p-aminobenzhydrazide (ABH) and terephthaloyl chloride (TCI), isophthaloyl chloride (ICI), and their appropriate combinations in N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) as solvent and all of these preparations were monitored viscometrically in order to prepare the products with as similar as possible average molecular weights. Polymer structures were characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectrometry, and ¹³C NMR spectroscopy, while their molecular weights were determined by light scattering and dilute-solution viscometry. Polymer properties were evaluated by solution viscometry, reverse osmosis tests, and thermal gravimetric analysis. The results obtained during the preparation of these materials, their subsequent structural characterization, and their property evaluations are discussed. They clearly indicate that substitution of m-phenylene units for p-phenylene ones within this polymer series led to an increase in polymer chain flexibility (from what is usually referred to as semiflexible or semirigid to typically flexible macromolecules), disrupted selectivity of the asymmetric thin membranes under reverse osmosis conditions and decreased stability at elevated temperatures in inert as well as in oxidative atmospheres.     

Partial reduction of annulated heterocycles as a general route to medium rings containing oxygen and nitrogen

The preparation of annulated furans and pyrroles is described as part of a general strategy for the synthesis of medium ring heterocycles. After Birch reduction, the corresponding dihydro compounds were oxidatively cleaved to produce medium ring ethers and amines in an efficient manner. This methodology was successfully applied to the formation of eight- and nine-membered cyclic ethers and nine-membered cyclic amines. Attaching a chiral auxiliary (bismethoxymethylpyrrolidine) to the furan allowed the formation of nine-membered ethers in 95% ee.     

Synthesis of azirines containing aldehyde functionality and their utilization as synthetic tools for five membered oxazoles and isoxazoles

A simple and useful procedure for the synthesis of azirines containing aldehyde functionality from open chain bromo/chloro‐aldehydes at room temperature is reported. The scope of the ring expansion reaction of a number of 3‐substituted‐2‐formyl‐azirines has been examined using different oraganometallic catalysts and a variety of Lewis acids.     

Linear free energy relationships between stability of complex and basicity of ligand: VII. The copper(II)-heteronuclear aromatic base-aminoacid ternary systems

The formation constants of ternary mixed ligand complex compounds formed from Cu(II)-2,2′-bipyridyl (bipy) with N-(para-substituted phenyl) glycines (pRPhG), Cu(II)-1,10-phenanthroline (phen) with N-(meta-substituted phenyl) glycines (mRPhG), Cu(II)-bipy/phen with some α-aminoacids (αA) have been determined by pH method at 25°C in the presence of 0.10 M NaClO₄. It was found that linear free energy relationships do exist between the stability of ternary complex compounds and the base strengths of the ligands in all four ternary systems investigated. The stability of the ternary complex compounds was discussed in terms of ΔlogK_M and log X values. It was found again that linear relationships exist between Δ log K_M, log X and pK₂ in the Cu(II)-phen-mRPhG ternary system.     

Basicity of azoles. 2. Relationship with energy of nonbonding electrons and energy of reorganization of π- and σ-electron systems of a base in ionization and protonation

A theoretical study (AM-1 method) of a broad series of substituted diazoles has shown that a single correlative relationship between the proton affinity (or pK_a) and the energy of the nonbonding electron pair of the base can be established only with an accounting for the difference in energies of reorganization of the -electron system of the heterocycle upon ionization and protonation.For previous communication, see [1].Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2709–2716, December, 1989.     

Oxaaza cyclophanes in the recognition of nucleotides. The role of oxygen and electron-rich aromatic rings

Dioxapolyaza cyclophanes derived from resorcinol and different polyamine chains have been studied in aqueous solution as abiotic receptors for nucleotides. The presence of the additional ethyleneoxy subunits is reflected in a higher basicity and in a significant increase in the log K values for the interaction with nucleotides relative to that of related polyazacyclophanes.     

Quantum chemical studies of azoles 3. Thermodynamic stabilities of neutral molecules and intermediates formed in electrophilic substitution of azoles containing three or four heteroatoms

Density functional theory quantum chemical calculations of thermodynamic stabilities in the gas phase and in water were carried out for 1,3,4-oxadiazole and 1,3,4-thiadiazole, 1,2,4-1H-triazole and 1,2,4-4H-triazole, 1,2,3,4-1H-tetrazole and 1,2,3,4-2H-tetrazole molecules, and for cationic and bipolar (carbenoid) intermediates formed by these molecules in electrophilic substitution reactions (with proton as model electrophile) and the results obtained are compared. Differences in the chemical behavior of pairs of isomeric 1H- and 4H-1,2,4-triazoles and 1H- and 2H-tetrazoles are analyzed.     

Energies for cyclic and acyclic aggregations of adamantane and diamantane units sharing vertices,edges, or six‐membered rings

Diamondoids are hydrocarbons having a carbon scaffold comprised from polymer‐like composites of adamantane cages. This article describes computed total energies and “SWB‐tension” energies (often referred to as “strain” energies) for species having n adamantane or diamantane units sharing pairwise: one carbon atom (spiro‐[n]adamantane or spiro‐[n]diamantane); one C? C bond (one‐bond‐sharing‐[n]adamantane or one‐bond‐sharing‐[n]diamantane); or one chair‐shaped hexagon of carbon atoms (1234‐helical‐cata‐[n]diamantanes). Each of the five investigated polymer‐like types is considered either as an acyclic or a cyclic chain of adamantane‐ or diamantane‐unit cages. With increasing n values, SWB‐tension energies for acyclic aggregates are found to increase linearly, while the net SWB‐tension energies of cyclic aggregates often go thru a minimum at a suitable value of . In all five cases, a limiting common energy per unit ( ) is found to be approached by both cyclic and acyclic chains as , as revealed from plots of versus 1/n for acyclic chains and of versus 1/n² for cyclic chains. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Synthesis of dimethyl substituted benzimidazoles containing cyclopropane fused onto five to eight membered [1,2-a]alicyclic rings and influence of methyl group substituents on cytotoxicity of benzimidazolequinones

Upon thermolysis 5,6-dimethyl-N-[(allyl, but-3-enyl, pent-4-enyl and hex-5-enyl-benzimidazol-2-yl)methylene]-(trans)-2,3-diphenylaziridin-1-amines (Eschenmoser hydrazones) form cyclopropane fused onto pyrrolo-, pyrido-, azepino- and azocino[1,2-a]benzimidazoles in 70, 50, 77 and 11% yield, respectively. The latter reaction also gave carbene insertion products. Dimethyl group substituents were found to significantly reduce the cytotoxicity of benzimidazolequinone towards human skin fibroblast cells.     

Quantitative study of interactions between oxygen lone pair and aromatic rings: substituent effect and the importance of closeness of contact

Current models describe aromatic rings as polar groups based on the fact that benzene and hexafluorobenzene are known to have large and permanent quadrupole moments. This report describes a quantitative study of the interactions between oxygen lone pair and aromatic rings. We found that even electron-rich aromatic rings and oxygen lone pairs exhibit attractive interactions. Free energies of interactions are determined using the triptycene scaffold and the equilibrium constants were determined by low-temperature 1H NMR spectroscopy. An X-ray structure analysis for one of the model compounds confirms the close proximity between the oxygen and the center of the aromatic ring. Theoretical calculations at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level corroborate the experimental results. The origin of attractive interactions was explored by using aromatic rings with a wide range of substituents. The interactions between an oxygen lone pair and an aromatic ring are attractive at van der Waals' distance even with electron-donating substituents. Electron-withdrawing groups increase the strength of the attractive interactions. The results from this study can be only partly rationalized by using the current models of aromatic system. Electrostatic-based models are consistent with the fact that stronger electron-withdrawing groups lead to stronger attractions, but fail to predict or rationalize the fact that weak attractions even exist between electron-rich arenes and oxygen lone pairs. The conclusion from this study is that aromatic rings cannot be treated as a simple quadrupolar functional group at van der Waals' distance. Dispersion forces and local dipole should also be considered.     

Aromatic reactivity : LVIII. Base-cleavage of bonds between trimethylsilyl groups and polynuclear aromatic rings

The relative rates of cleavage of aryl-SiMe₃ compounds in a mixture of 1.0 M potassium hydroxide (1 vol) and DMSO (6 vol) at 70° have been found to be as follows: (aryl = ) Ph, 1.0; 1-naphthyl, 12.5; 2-naphthyl, 4.7; 9-phenanthryl, 51; 1-pyrenyl, 71. The order of reactivity is the same as that observed for hydrogen-exchange of the corresponding hydrocarbons in cyclohexylamine containing lithium cyclohexylamide, and it seems that the stability of the aryl carbanion is the dominant influence in both cases.     

Overlooked difference between hydrogen bonds of equal strength formed between catechol and an oxygen or nitrogen base. Experiments and DFT calculations

The IR spectrum of catechol in CCl(4) shows two fairly sharp O-H stretching bands of roughly equal absorbance at 3615.0 and 3569.6 cm(-1) due, respectively, to the "free" OH and the intramolecularly H-bonded OH groups. Intermolecular H-bond formation between the "free" OH and a hydrogen bond acceptor (HBA) decreases its stretching frequency by several hundred wavenumbers and simultaneously decreases the frequency of the intramolecularly H-bonded OH by a few tens of wavenumbers. The magnitude of these frequency shifts, Deltaupsilon(inter) and Deltaupsilon(intra), respectively, are very well reproduced by DFT calculations. As would be expected, the magnitudes of Deltaupsilon(inter) and Deltaupsilon(intra) increase as the HB accepting ability of the HBA increases as quantified, on a relative scale, by the HBA's values (Abraham et al. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2 1990, 521). However, plots of experimental, or calculated, frequency shifts versus reveal that Deltaupsilon(inter) and Deltaupsilon(intra) are ca. 40% larger for a nitrogen atom HBA than for an oxygen atom HBA having equal HBA activity. We hypothesize that for HBAs of equal strength, i.e., of equal, the H-bond in (O-H- - -O)(inter) is shorter and, hence, intrinsically stronger than the H-bond in the (O-H- - -N)(inter). However, we further hypothesize that there is more charge separation in the H-bond to N because N is a better proton acceptor than O. Hence, it is the greater Coulombic attraction in (O-H- - -N)(inter) which strengthens this H-bond and compensates for its greater length. Theoretical calculations lend support to these hypotheses.     

Relative stability of linear and cyclic configurations of systems containing four atoms of nitrogen,carbon, or oxygen

Conclusions The present article has been devoted to an investigation of the relative stability of various conceivable structures of systems X₄ (where X=C, CH, N, or O). We regard the comparative regularities which we have discovered as reliable, in spite of the use of MHM, in which no account is taken in any explicit way of the interelectronic interaction. We have considered homoatomic systems, where, on the qualitative side many conclusions are essentially of a theoretical-group character, while from a quantitative point of view the accuracy of the results obtained is increased because of the justifiable similarities assumed in the approximations of the matrix elements (both diagonal and nondiagonal). We have also investigated the geometry of the molecules, a problem of the solution of which the MHM method (as shown by comparing this with the SSP-MO [26] method) is remarkably effective.The main results of the present work are in our view to be found in the great similarity discovered in the structures of the systems C₄H₄ and N₄ (and their appreciable difference from the structure of the O₄ molecule). Therefore, returning to the over-all problem formulated at the beginning of this article, we are able to emphasize that the hypothesis of the possible formation of the N₄ system by combination of molecular nitrogen in certain complexes of the transition metals [1] is still further confirmed.N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 10, No. 4, July–August, 1969.     

SINDO1 II. Application to ground states of molecules containing carbon,nitrogen and oxygen atoms

Molecular geometries, binding energies, ionization potentials and dipole moments are calculated by the SINDO1 method for a large number of molecules containing C, N and O atoms. Comparison is made with MINDO/3, MNDO and where possible with STO-3G results. The explicit data and an error statistics show the relative merits of SINDO1.     

Determination of oxygen and nitrogen derivatives of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fractions of asphalt mixtures using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization

Liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization was used for the determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon derivatives, the oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, formed in asphalt fractions. Two different methods have been developed for the determination of five oxygenated and seven nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that are characterized by having two or more condensed aromatic rings and present mutagenic and carcinogenic properties. The parameters of the atmospheric pressure chemical ionization interface were optimized to obtain the highest possible sensitivity for all compounds. The detection limits of the methods ranged from 0.1 to 57.3 μg/L for nitrated and from 0.1 to 6.6 μg/L for oxygenated derivatives. The limits of quantification were in the range of 4.6–191 μg/L for nitrated and 0.3–8.9 μg/L for oxygenated derivatives. The methods were validated against a diesel particulate extract standard reference material (National Institute of Standards and Technology SRM 1975), and the obtained concentrations (two nitrated derivatives) agreed with the certified values. The methods were applied in the analysis of asphalt samples after their fractionation into asphaltenes and maltenes, according to American Society for Testing and Material D4124, where the maltenic fraction was further separated into its basic, acidic, and neutral parts following the method of Green. Only two nitrated derivatives were found in the asphalt sample, quinoline and 2‐nitrofluorene, with concentrations of 9.26 and 2146 mg/kg, respectively, whereas no oxygenated derivatives were detected.     

PMR spectra and conformation of some four-membered rings containing one nitrogen atom. 2-Azetidinones, 2-azetidinethiones and 1-azetines

By PMR studies at different temperatures a planar conformation is proposed for the 2-azetidinone, 2-azetidinethione and 1-azetine rings. The chemical shifts and the vicinal and geminal coupling constants of the ring methylene protons are reported and discussed. The application of the relationship between the J_gem value and the angle between the methylene group and the adjacent 7r-bond is considered.