New Screening Protocol for Effective Green Solvents Selection of Benzamide,Salicylamide and Ethenzamide

New protocol for screening efficient and environmentally friendly solvents was proposed and experimentally verified. The guidance for solvent selection comes from computed solubility via COSMO-RS approach. Furthermore, solute-solvent affinities computed using advanced quantum chemistry level were used as a rationale for observed solvents ranking. The screening protocol pointed out that 4-formylomorpholine (4FM) is an attractive solubilizer compared to commonly used aprotic solvents such as DMSO and DMF. This was tested experimentally by measuring the solubility of the title compounds in aqueous binary mixtures in the temperature range between 298.15 K and 313.15 K. Additional measurements were also performed for aqueous binary mixtures of DMSO and DMF. It has been found that the solubility of studied aromatic amides is very high and quite similar in all three aprotic solvents. For most aqueous binary mixtures, a significant decrease in solubility with a decrease in the organic fraction is observed, indicating that all systems can be regarded as efficient solvent-anti-solvent pairs. In the case of salicylamide dissolved in aqueous-4FM binary mixtures, a strong synergistic effect has been found leading to the highest solubility for 0.6 mole fraction of 4-FM.     

Dynamic Phosphorus: Thiolate Exchange Cascades with Higher Phosphorothioates

In this study, we introduce phosphorus, a pnictogen, as an exchange center for dynamic covalent chemistry. Cascade exchange of neutral phosphorotri- and -tetrathioates with thiolates is demonstrated in organic solvents, aqueous micellar systems, and in living cells. Exchange rates increase with the pH value, electrophilicity of the exchange center, and nucleophilicity of the exchangers. Molecular walking of the dynamic phosphorus center along Hammett gradients is simulated by the sequential addition of thiolate exchangers. Compared to phosphorotrithioates, tetrathioates are better electrophiles with higher exchange rates. Dynamic phosphorotri- and -tetrathioates are non-toxic to HeLa Kyoto cells and participate in the dynamic networks that account for thiol-mediated uptake into living cells.     

Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of SCN(-) and N3(-) in polar solvents studied by nonlinear infrared spectroscopy

In this paper, we report on our investigation into the vibrational dynamics of the antisymmetric stretching modes of SCN(-) and N(3)(-) in several polar solvents. We used an infrared (IR) pump-probe method to study orientational relaxation processes. In two aprotic solvents (N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)), the anisotropy decay shows a bimodal feature, whereas in other solvents the anisotropy decay can be fitted well by a single exponential function. We consider that the relative contribution of fast-decaying components is smaller in the other solvents than in DMF and DMSO. We discuss the possible origins of the different anisotropy decay behavior in different solvents. From the three-pulse IR photon echo measurements for SCN(-) and N(3)(-), we found that the time-correlation functions (TCFs) of vibrational frequency fluctuations decay on two different time scales, one of which is less than 100 fs and the other is approximately 3-6 ps. In aprotic solvents, the fast-decaying components of the TCFs on a <100 fs time scale play an important role in the vibrational frequency fluctuation, although the contribution of collective solvent reorganization in aprotic solvents was clearly observed to have small amplitudes. On the other hand, we found that the amplitude of components that decay in a few picoseconds and/or the constant offset of the TCF in protic solvents is relatively large compared with that in aprotic solvents. With the formation and dissociation of hydrogen bonds between ion solute and solvent molecules, the spectra of different solvated species are exchanged with each other and merged into one band. We considered that this exchange may be an origin of slow-decaying components of the TCFs and that the decay of the TCFs corresponds to the time scales of the exchange for protic solvents such as formamide. The mechanism of vibrational frequency fluctuations for the antisymmetric stretching modes of SCN(-) and N(3)(-) is discussed in terms of the difference between protic and aprotic solvents.     

New surfactants for chemistry in water

The evolution of nanomicelles using new “designer surfactants” makes is possible to conduct numerous organic transformations in aqueous medium instead of organic solvents. This leads to a strong decrease of waste production and allows to replace reprotoxic dipolar aprotic solvents. The technology lends itself easily to scale-up in process chemistry.     

Dynamic Diselenide Bonds: Exchange Reaction Induced by Visible Light without Catalysis

Dynamic covalent bonds are extensively employed in dynamic combinatorial chemistry. The metathesis reaction of disulfide bonds is widely used, but requires catalysis or irradiation with ultraviolet (UV) light. It was found that diselenide bonds are dynamic covalent bonds and undergo dynamic exchange reactions under mild conditions for diselenide metathesis. This reaction is induced by irradiation with visible light and stops in the dark. The exchange is assumed to proceed through a radical mechanism, and experiments with 2,2,6,6‐tetramethylpiperidin‐1‐yloxyl (TEMPO) support this assumption. Furthermore, the reaction can be conducted in different solvents, including protic solvents. Diselenide metathesis can also be used to synthesize diselenide‐containing asymmetric block copolymers. This work thus entails the use of diselenide bonds as dynamic covalent bonds, the development of a dynamic exchange reaction under mild conditions, and an extension of selenium‐related dynamic chemistry.     

Thermochemistry of Benzene Solution in Alcohols, Aprotic Solvents, and Mixtures of Aprotic Solvents with Methanol

The standard enthalpies of solution of benzene at 25°C in alcohols (methanol, 1-propanol, 1-pentanol, 1-decanol), aprotic solvents (1,4-dioxane, acetone, acetonitrile, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethylformamide, propylene carbonate), and mixtures of methanol with these aprotic solvents were determined. Multiple regression analysis revealed the role of specific and nonspecific interactions in solvation of benzene in these solvents.     

Dialkyl aluminium chloride: a reagent for removal of trityl group from trityl ethers of deoxynucleosides,deoxynucleotides, and oligodeoxynucleotides

Detritylation of N-acyl-5′-o-tritylated deoxynucleosides, deoxynucleotides, and oligodeoxynucleotides have been quantitatively achieved in minutes at room temperature by using diethylaluminium chloride or diisobutylaluminium chloride. Reactions take place in unpolar solvents in homogeneous phase under completely aprotic conditions.     

What should be impossible: resolution of the mononuclear gallium coordination complex, Tris(benzohydroxamato)gallium(III)

Complexes of Ga3+, a d10 metal ion which lacks ligand-field-stabilization energy, are considered labile. In fact, hexaaquagallium(III) has a ligand exchange rate of 403 s-1, 2.5 times that of the analagous Fe3+ complex (Hugi-Cleary, D.; Helm, L.; Merbach, A. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 4444-4450). Given this lability, resolution of Ga3+ complexes should be impossible. Despite this, we report the resolution of the Lambda and Delta isomers of tris(benzohydroxamate)gallium (III) (1), the first resolution of a mononuclear gallium complex. Not only is resolution possible, but these resolved complexes show remarkable resistance to racemization in aprotic solvents. The unprecedented stability of Lambda- and Delta-1 is a surprise, and as such, alters our understanding of classical coordination chemistry.     

Solvent polarity induced structural changes in 2,6-diamino-9,10-anthraquinone dye

Photophysical properties of 2,6-diamino-9,10-anthraquinone (2,6-DAAQ) dye have been investigated in different solvents and solvent mixtures. The fluorescence quantum yields, fluorescence lifetimes, radiative rate constants, nonradiative rate constants and absorption and fluorescence spectral characteristics show unusual deviations in the lower polarity aprotic solvents in comparison to those in other aprotic solvents of medium to higher polarities. The results indicate that the dye exists in different structural forms in the lower and in the medium to higher polarity solvents. Drawing an analogy with the results reported for other amino-substituted dyes, it is inferred that 2,6-DAAQ dye adopts a planar intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) structure in medium to higher polarity solvents, where the amino lone pairs are in good resonance with the anthraquinone pi-cloud. In the lower polarity solvents, however, the dye is inferred to exist in a nonplanar structure where the amino lone pairs are not in good resonance with the anthraquinone pi-cloud. Due to these structural differences, the dye displays significantly different photophysical behavior in the lower polarity solvents than in the other solvents of medium to higher polarities. Supportive evidence for the above structural changes has been obtained from ab initio quantum chemical calculations on the structures of the dye under different conditions. Unusual deviations in the photophysical properties of 2,6-DAAQ dye in protic solvents in comparison to those in aprotic solvents of similar polarities are attributed to the intermolecular hydrogen bonding effect involving the OH groups of the protic solvents and the quinonoid oxygens of the dye.     

Uranyl Schiff base complexes as new heterogeneous catalysts for halogen exchange reactions between alkyl halides and elemental halogens

Mild and effective procedure for the halogen exchange reaction of alkyl halides with elemental iodine and bromine catalyzed with uranyl Schiff base complexes in various aprotic solvents was developed. Corresponding alkyl bromides and iodides were obtained with high yields within 20—70 min. The structures of the target products were confirmed by physical and spectroscopic data.     

离子交换树脂催化合成碳酸亚丙酯

碘型离子交换树脂在某些偶极非质子性溶剂的作用下，能有效地催化二氧化碳与环氧丙烷合成碳酸亚丙酯，并能重复使用至少10次而仍能保持较高的催化活性。     

Localization and moving of a proton inside hydrogen-bonded complexes in aprotic solvents

The results of the study of a number of molecular and ionic H-bonded complexes in freon solutions by ¹H NMR at 100–150 K are reported. It is shown that under these conditions the signals of OH(NH) protons belonging to various complexes, self-associates and free molecules are observed separately. The spin-spin coupling of the signals is frequently discernible. The fine structure makes it possible to distinguish between complexes with fast proton migration between two wells on the potential surface and those with the proton localized in one well (in particular, the central one). Several complexes with slow (in the NMR scale) proton migration have also been found.The results of the study of the non-catalytic proton exchange kinetics between various molecules containing OH and NH groups in dilute solutions in aprotic solvents are considered. The exchange between the RCOOH and ROH molecules goes on via the intermediate formation of a cyclic ionic pair with two equivalent H-bonds even in non-polar solvents such as cyclohexane. For exchange between two RCOOH or ROH molecules a synchronous transfer of two protons in a cyclic molecular complex is likely.     

Kinetics and Mechanism of Monomolecular Heterolysis of Commercial Organohalogen Compounds: XXXI. Solvent Effect on the Rate of 1-Methyl-1-chlorocyclopentane Heterolysis. Correlation Analysis of Solvation Effects

Heterolysis of 1-methyl-1-chlorocyclopentane in protic and aprotic solvents occurs by the E1 mechanism. The reaction rate in aprotic solvents or in a set of protic and aprotic solvents is satisfactorily described by the parameters of the polarity and electrophilicity or ionizing power of the solvents. In protic solvents, the reaction rate grows with increasing polarity or ionizing power of the solvent and decreases with increasing nucleophilicity.     

Ex situ Generation of Thiazyl Trifluoride (NSF3) as a Gaseous SuFEx Hub**

Sulfur(VI)-fluoride exchange (SuFEx) chemistry, an all-encompassing term for substitution events that replace fluoride at an electrophilic sulfur(VI), enables the rapid and flexible assembly of linkages around a S^VI core. Although a myriad of nucleophiles and applications works very well with the SuFEx concept, the electrophile design has remained largely SO₂-based. Here, we introduce S≡N-based fluorosulfur(VI) reagents to the realm of SuFEx chemistry. Thiazyl trifluoride (NSF₃) gas is shown to serve as an excellent parent compound and SuFEx hub to efficiently synthesize mono- and disubstituted fluorothiazynes in an ex situ generation workflow. Gaseous NSF₃ was evolved from commercial reagents in a nearly quantitative fashion at ambient conditions. Moreover, the mono-substituted thiazynes could be extended further as SuFEx handles and be engaged in the synthesis of unsymmetrically disubstituted thiazynes. These results provide valuable insights into the versatility of these understudied sulfur functionalities paving the way for future applications.     

Convenient,Easy and Highly Regioselective Preparation of Haloalcohols from the Reaction of Epoxides with Elemental Halogen Catalyzed by Hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA)

The highly regioselective cleavage of epoxides into corresponding vicinal haloalcohols with elemental halogen has been catalyzed by hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA). This method occurred under neutral and mild conditions with high yields and short reaction times in various aprotic solvents even when sensitive functional groups were present.     

Stannous Chloride Dihydrate : A New Catalyst For The Tetrahydropyranylation Of Alcohols

Catalytic Stannous chloride dihydrate in polar aprotic solvents like chloroform efficiently catalyse the tetrahydropyranylation of alcohols in a short time under mild conditions.     

Beta-halo-alpha,beta-unsaturated gamma-sultones

The reaction of beta-iodo-alpha,beta-unsaturated gamma-sultones (i.e., 4-halo-1,2-oxathiole 2,2-dioxides) in aprotic polar solvents such as DMSO or acetone, with 'soft' nucleophiles such as iodide or thioacetate, yields an allenesulfonate by a very facile halophilic ring-opening E(2)-elimination. The 'harder' nucleophile, azide ion, reacts under the same conditions to yield the corresponding beta-azido-alpha,beta-unsaturated gamma-sultone (i.e., 4-azido-1,2-oxathiole 2,2-dioxide), displacing the beta-halide by an addition-elimination mechanism. In contrast, in the hydroxylic solvent CD(3)OD at ambient temperature, various nucleophiles yield neither of the above-mentioned products, but catalyze a rapid replacement of the Calpha-H by deuterium. Factors underlying this intriguing rapid exchange are proposed. Interestingly, the beta-bromo analogue exhibits similar reactivity except for the halophilic ring-opening. Calculations indicate the relative importance of the beta-halogen and the S-O(-C) bonds in enhancing the acidity of the H-C(alpha)S(O)2- grouping.     

Kinetics and Mechanism of Monomolecular Heterolysis of Commercial Organohalogen Compounds: XXXIV. Solvent Effect on the Heterolysis Rate of 1-Chloro-1-methylcyclohexane. Correlation Analysis of Solvation Effects in Heterolysis of 1-Chloro-1-methylcyclohexane and 1-Chloro-1-methylcyclopentane

The kinetics of heterolysis of 1-chloro-1-methylcyclohexane in 9 protic and 25 aprotic solvents at 25°C were studied by the verdazyl method. The kinetic equation is v = k[RCl] (E1 mechanism). The heterolysis rate of 1-chloro-1-methylcyclohexane in protic solvents is two orders of magnitude lower than that of 1-chloro-1-methylcyclopentane, whereas in low-polarity and nonpolar aprotic solvents the rates are close. A correlation analysis was made to reveal the solvation effects in heterolysis of both chlorides in a set of 9 protic and 25 aprotic solvents, and separately in protic and aprotic solvents.     

Ligand exchange and solvolytic reactions of99mTcBr 6 2− in non-aqueous media

Prior work had documented that^99mTcCl ₆ ^2– could undergo ready ligand exchange reaction under non-aqueous condition. We now wish to report the ligand exchange reaction of bromine in^99mTcBr ₆ ^2– in non-aqueous solvents using 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine) as the displacing ligand. Analysis of the products obtained by paper chromatography, HPLC and electrophoresis suggest that a 12 Tcoxine complex appears to be the most stable of the complexes formed, probably^99mTc(oxine)₂ Br₂. However, displacement of bromine by polar solvents (both protic and aprotic) can also occur, both on^99mTcBr ₆ ^2– and in the above complex as a consequence of solvolytic reactions. Other Tc-oxine complexes can also be formed upon ligand exchange, but they appear to be stable only under aprotic, non solvolytic conditions. These studies again document that hexahalotechnetate complexes exhibit ligand exchange reactions under non-aqueous conditions, that they allow the ready synthesis of novel technetium complexes, but that because of their high reactivity the effect of competing reactions must be considered.     

Studies directed toward the synthesis of conformationally restricted neurotransmitter analogs: The addition of N-hydroxyimides to ethyl propiolate

N-Hydroxyimides were found to add readily to ethyl propiolate to yield the imidooxyacrylates in both protic and aprotic solvents. The trans isomer only was formed in aprotic solvents while both isomers were formed in protic solvents.