Photochromic dihetarylethenes. 7. Synthesis of bis(thienylazoles), photochromic analogs of diarylethenes

Procedures for the synthesis of 4,5-bis[2,5-dimethyl(3-thienyl)]-1,3-azoles based on 1,2-bis[2,5-dimethyl(3-thienyl)]-2-hydroxyethan-1-one, 2-chloro-1,2-bis[2,5-dimethyl(3-thienyl)]ethan-1-one, and 1,2-bis[2,5-dimethyl(3-thienyl)]ethane-1,2-dione were developed. Dithienylethenic compounds in which the thienyl rings are linked through the azole rings exhibit photochromic properties.     

Photochromic dihetarylethenes. 17. Synthesis and photochromic properties of dithienylethenes containing new heterocyclic bridging fragments

Procedures were developed for the synthesis of substituted bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)ethenes containing the imidazol-2-one, 1,3-dioxol-2-one, or 1,3-oxazol-2-one fragments as ethene bridges. These compounds were demonstrated to exhibit the photochromic properties. The cyclic forms of some imidazolone and oxazolone photochromes possess high thermal stability. The structure of photochromic 4,5-bis(4-acetyl-2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)-3-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1,3-oxazol-2-one was established by X-ray diffraction analysis. The molecule adopts an anti-parallel conformation similar to that of perfluorocyclopentene-bridged dithienylethenes.     

Synthesis of Substituted 1,2,4-Triazines Based on 1,2-Bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)ethanedione

A novel, convenient method has been developed for the synthesis of 1,2-bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)ethanedione, from which were prepared 5,6-bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)-1,2,4-triazines (analogs of the photochromic 1,2-diarylethenes). The principial possibility of using 1,2,4-triazines obtained as photochromic agents was investigated.     

Synthesis and biological activity of yuccagenin bisrhamnoside

The two hydroxyls of yuccagenin can be glycosylated by Koenigs-Knorr condensation with acetobromorhammose in dichloroethane in the presence of mercuric cyanide. The bisrhamnoside of yuccagenin markedly lowers the cholesterol and triglyceride content in blood serum of healthy animals and animals with experimental hyperlipidemia.Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 242–243, May–June, 2000.     

Dichloromethyl tert-butyl ketone in the Darzens reaction

The condensation of dichloromethyl tert-butyl ketone (1) with benzaldehyde, para-bromobenzaldehyde, and 2,4-dichlorobenzaldehyde under conditions for the Darzens reaction gives 1-aryl-1-chloro-4,4-dimethyl-2,3-pentanediones (2–4). In the case of nitrobenzaldehydes, the reaction products are 1-aryl-2-chloro-1,2-epoxy-4,4-dimethylpentanones (5 and 6), which isomerize to -chloroketones (7 and 8) upon prolonged storage or heating at reflux in benzene.A. E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Kazan Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 420083 Kazan. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 438–441, February, 1992.     

Synthese von α-Methyl-homocysteinthiolacton

Summary A facile high yield large scale methylation procedure affording2c is reported utilizing the N-[bis(methylthio)-methylen-protected derivative4a as an intermediate. The optical resolution of racemic2c is described leading to (S)-2b. In addition the thiolactone2c undergoes oxidative ring opening by bromine to the corresponding sulphonic acid5.

     

Synthesis of some polycyclic noncondensed pyrimidine structures

Methods for the synthesis of compounds containing two or more pyrimidine rings linked through aliphatic chains with different numbers of carbon atoms are described.Deceased.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 335–340, February, 1995     

Charge control of phenol complexation with unsaturated compounds containing organosilicon substituents. Thiophene derivatives

The frequency shifts of the O-H stretching modes and the resonance components _R of these shifts in the IR spectra of H-complexes of phenol with thiophene derivatives having organic and organosilicon substituents have been analyzed. Relationship of and _R parameters to values calculated by nonempirical methods that characterize the electronic effect of organic substituents on the effective charges of the thiophene ring atoms has been established. It has been shown that in the complexation of phenol (hard acid) with thiophene derivatives charge control prevails over frontier orbital control. The changes in the effective charges of the thiophene ring atoms due to the effect of organosilicon substituents have been calculated.For the previous publication of this series see Ref. 1.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2163–2168, December, 1994.This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project No. 93-03-18725.     

Hexafluoroacetone as Protecting and Activating Reagent. Glycosylated Malic, Citramalic, and Thiomalic Acid Derivatives, New Glycosylated Building Blocks for Drug Design [1]

Summary. Glycosylated -hydroxy and -mercapto acids have been synthesized starting from malic/citramalic/thiomalic acid and Ac₄--D-Glc-NH₂/Bzl₄--D-Glc-NH₂ using hexafluoroacetone as protecting and activating reagent.Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Horst Wilde on the occasion of his 65^th birthday     

Substituierte 3-Amino-thiophene und 3-Amino-selenophene aus β-Chlor-α-cyan-zimtsäurenitril

Summary -Chloro--cyano-cinnamonitrile (1) reacts in one step with -oxo-thioles3 or successively with sodium sulphide and -chlorocarbonyl compounds4 to form the 5-substituted 4-amino-2-phenyl-thiophene-3-carbonitriles5. Analogously, the successive reactions of -chloro cinnamonitrile1 with sodium selenide — produced in situ from selene and sodium boronhydride — and -chlorocarbonyl compounds4 yields the 5-substituted 4-amino-2-phenyl-selenophene-3-carbonitriles6.

     

Volumetric studies on the binary mixtures of furan with some aromatic hydrocarbons

Molar excess volumes of mixing for the binary mixtures of furan with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, o-, m-, and p-xylenes have been calculated from the precise experimental density data at 25°C over the entire composition range. The results have been discussed in terms of molecular interactions and geometric effects in the binary mixtures.     

Die Acetalgruppe, 1. Mitt. Acetale von Halogenmethyl-arylcarbinolen

Several halomethyl-arylcarbinols were prepared, and the influence of substituents on enantiomer selectivity in the acetalisation reaction with [2S-(2,3a,4,7,7a)]-octahydro-7,8,8-trimethyl-4,7-methanobenzofuran-2-ol was examined.

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Synthesis of driman-8α,11-diol from sclareol through 8α,12-epoxy-14,15-bisnorlabdan-13-one

A four-step synthesis of driman-8,11-diol from sclareol in 44% total yield is described that includes the intermediates (12R)-8,12-epoxy-14,15-bisnorlabdan-13-one, (12S)-8,12-epoxy-12-acetoxy-13,14,15,16-tetranorlabdane and 8,12-epoxy-13,14,15,16-tetranorlabd-11-ene.Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, Kishinev, fax (3732) 73 97 75, Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 124–125, March–April, 2000.     

Chiroptical properties of cyclic α-diketones

The chiroptical properties of dissymmetric cyclopentanedione, 3-methylcyclopentane-1,2-dione, and glyoxal structures are examined on a theoretical model in which the electronic wave functions are obtained from semiempirical all-valence-shell molecular orbital calculations. Excited state wave functions are constructed in the virtual orbital-configuration interaction approximation. The rotatory strengths, dipole strengths, oscillator strengths, and dissymmetry factors of the lower energy singletsinglet transitions in eleven cyclopentanedione and ten glyoxal structures are calculated and reported. The signs and relative magnitudes of the rotatory strengths associated with the two lowest energy singlet transitions are found to be extraordinarily sensitive to ring substituents and ring conformational parameters as well as to inherent chirality within the -dicarbonyl moiety of the cyclopentanedione structures. Vicinal effects play a significant role in determining the signs and magnitudes of the electronic rotatory strengths. For a given configurational isomer of an inherently dissymmetric -dicarbonyl group (i.e., P or M), the signs of the electronic rotatory strength of the lowest energy transition in glyoxal and in cyclopentanedione are opposite. This result suggests that cisoid glyoxal structures may not be useful models for the chiroptical properties of cyclic -diketone systems with cisoid dicarbonyl moieties.This work was supported in part by a grant from the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and a computing grant from the University of Virginia Computer Science Center.     

Thermolytic transformations of polyfluoroorganic compounds

Copyrolysis of 4-chlorotetrafluorobenzotrichloride with chlorodifluoromethane (as the source of difluorocarbene) gave 4-chlorodifluoromethyl--chlorohexafluorostyrene, 1,4-dichlorotetrafluorobenzene, and 4-(chlorodifluoromethyl)chlorotetrafluorobenzene along with 4-chloro--chlorohexafluorostyrene. Possible routes for the formation of these products have been offered.For Part 30, see Ref. 1.Translated fromIzevstiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2199–2202, December, 1994.     

Thermal Behaviour of the Complexes of Zinc Amino Acids

The eight solid complexes of zinc with L--methionine or L--histidine were prepared. The thermal decomposition processes of these complexes were determined by means of TG-DTG. The results show that their decomposition processes can be divided into three steps except for the complex Zn(Met)₂ the decomposition of which is completed in one step. All the final products are ZnO.This revised version was published online in November 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Electrochemical oxidation of tetramethyl esters of α,α,ω,ω-alcaneteracarboxylic acids

Cyclization of esters of butane-1,1,4,4- and pentane-1,1,5,5-tetracarboxylic acids during electrolysis in methanol in the presence of Nal produces, with a yield of 95%, the esters of cyclobutane-1,1,2,2- and cyclopentane-1,1,2,2-tetracarboxylic acids. Under similar conditions, esters of the highest ,,,-alkanetetracarboxylic acids undergo iodation and hydroxymethylation due to electrical oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde. During electrolysis in methanol in the presence of NaOAc, the esters of ,,,-alkanetetracarboxylic acids undergo effective hydroxymethylation, followed by cyclization into substituted five- and six-member lactones, or tetrahydrofurans when structurally possible.N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117913 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2332–2339, October, 1992.     

Synthesis ofN-alkylamides of 3-fluoroalkylaziridine-2-carboxylic acids

The N-alkylamides of 3-fluoroalkylaziridine-2-carboxylic acids have been prepared for the first time by the interaction of ethyl 0-fltioroalkyl-,-dibromocarboxylates with primary amines.Prepared by a known procedure;² characteristics of previously unknown ester1b are given in the Experimental section.     

Effects of α-tocopherol and its acetate on the hydrolytic activity of phospholipase D in egg yolk phosphatidylcholine bilayers

Effects of -tocopherol (Toc) and -tocopherol acetate (TocA) on the hydrolysis activity of phospholipase D (fromStreptomyces chromofuscus) were studied in small unilamellar vesicles (SUV) of egg yolk phosphatidylcholine (PC). Choline produced in the reaction was monitored by use of a choline oxidase — oxygen electrode. Addition of 18 mol% Toc into SUV (2 mM PC) brought about a twofold rate of choline production. On the other hand, the effect of 18 mol% TocA in SUV was very small. The apparent maximum velocity,V _max(app), increased by addition of Toc in SUV. The apparent Michaelis constant,K _m(app), was unchanged by addition of Toc and TocA in SUV. The Toc and TocA molecules did not have significant effects when PC was solubilized in the micelles of heptaethylene glycol dodecyl ether. The effects of Toc and TocA are, therefore, not due to specific ones on the enzyme itself, but rather upon the bilayer-organization of the substrate. Measurements of spreading pressure showed complete miscibility of PC and Toc, and limited mutual solubility of PC and TocA, suggesting stronger attractive interactions between Toc and PC than those between TocA and PC in the bilayers.     

Studies of the energy spectrum of α, ω- substituted polymethine chains. II. Polymethine chains with odd number of methine groups

The analysis of the experimental data for the energy of the longest wavelength optical transitions _n,opt of substituted polymethines X (CH)_2n+1 X shows that in the asymptotic case (n) _,opt does not tend to zero, as it follows from the empirically established correlations, but has a finite, non-zero value. It is shown that the energy gap of odd polymethines is the same as that of the even polymethines - the polyenes (E 2 eV). The substituents (X N, O, B) are responsible for the appearance of levels in the gap. These, depending on the substituent character, are vacant (X B) or occupied (X N, O). The transition from or to such a level determines the longest wavelength optical transition energy of polymethines.