Advances in the synthesis of 7-(3-cyclopentyloxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-hexahydro-3<Emphasis Type="Italic">H</Emphasis>-pyrrolizin-3-one (Pyrromilast)–a promising agent for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The review summarizes the known approaches to diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of 7-(3-cyclopentyloxy-4-methoxyphenyl)hexahydro-3H-pyrrolizin-3-one (Pyrromilast), a highly active inhibitor of subtype 4B phosphodiesterase and a promising agent for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.     

Nitraminomethylation of silylated polynitrogen heterocyclic compounds in nonaqueous solutions

Trimethylsilyloxy derivatives of 1,2,4-triazole, 3(5)-nitro-1,2,4-triazole, and tetrazole are inert toward 2-nitro-1-trimethylsilyloxy-2-azapropane, but they react with 1-chloro-2-nitro-2-azapropane to give the corresponding nitraminomethyl derivatives. Silyiated 1,2,4-triazole undergoes bis-nitraminomethylation to give a triazolium salt.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1666–1668, September, 1993.     

Structures of Chlorinated Fullerenes,IPR C96Cl20 and Non‐classical C94Cl28 and C92Cl32: Evidence of the Existence of Three New Isomers of C96

Chlorination of various HPLC fractions of C₉₆ with a mixture of VCl₄ and SbCl₅ at 340–360 °C and single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction study of the products led to the identification of three new IPR isomers of C₉₆. The C₉₆(175) isomer forms a stable chloride, C₉₆(175)Cl₂₀, while chlorides of two other new isomers, C₉₆(114) and C₉₆(80), undergo cage shrinkage yielding C₉₄(NC1)Cl₂₈ and C₉₆(NC2)Cl₃₂ with non‐classical (NC) cages. These two NC chlorides contain, respectively, one and two heptagons flanked by pairs of fused pentagons and are stabilized by chlorine attachment to the emerging pentagon–pentagon junctions. Thus, the number of the experimentally confirmed C₉₆ isomers has reached nine, which corroborates the empirical rule that the C_6n fullerenes exhibit particularly rich isomerism.     

1-Alkoxyaziridines

The corresponding 1-alkoxyaziridines were synthesized by oxidation of methoxy-, ethoxy-, and isopropoxyamines with lead tetraacetate in the presence of 2-methyl-2-butene and 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene. The PMR spectra of the oxidation products were investigated, and the high pyramidal stability of nitrogen in these compounds was confirmed. The individual invertomers 1-alkoxy-2,2,3-trimethylaziridines were isolated by preparative gas-liquid chromatography.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1514–1519, November, 1972.The authors thank A. A. Potekhin, I. N. Somin, R. R. Kostikov, M. I. Komendantov, and M. A. Kuznetsov for their useful discussions.     

Isomerization of 5, 5-dimethylpyrazolines. preparation and properties of 5, 5-dimethyl-Δ1-pyrazoline and 3, 4-dimethyl-Δ2-pyrazoline

Slow distillation of 5, 5, -dimethyl-²-pyrazoline isomerizes it to 5, 5-dimethyl-¹-pyrazoline, and heating the latter with hydrazine hydrochloride reconverts it to the ² isomer. This is the first experimental evidence that the ² double bond in a pyrazoline can move to the ¹ position, i. e., in a direction the reverse of that previously known. The 5, 5-dimethyl-¹ -pyrazoline described is the simplest ¹ pyrazoline hitherto isolated.The authors heartily thank A. A. Petrov for making it possible to chart the PMR spectra, and V. B. Lebedev and V. S. Stopskom for obtaining and treating the spectrograms.     

Reaction of onium salts with nucleophilic reagents

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